An employer following the human-relations approach would probably follow which policy?
a. Give each employee a variety of meaningful tasks
b. Start by doing research to find the simplest, most foolproof way to do the job.
c. Supervise each employee closely and adjust salaries based on performance.
d. Write a manual that describes exactly what to do in considerable detail.
a
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According to the text, each of the following factors plays a major role in obesity EXCEPT
a. laziness. b. environmental factors like television commercials. c. genetics. d. behavioral patterns. e. eating in response to emotional cues.
A language can be best defined as a(n) _____
a. limited number of signals producing infinite number of messages b. unlimited number of signals producing infinite number of messages c. limited number of signals producing finite number of messages d. unlimited number of signals producing finite number of messages
In a classic experiment, two groups of rats explored a maze with the first group being rewarded with food at the end of the maze, while the second group wandered the maze but were not rewarded with food at the end of the maze. On another trial, the second group was rewarded with food at the end of the maze. This second group of "uneducated" rats
a. only then began to learn the maze. b. showed only a slightly slower completion time as compared to the first group. c. ran the maze as quickly as the first group. d. never learned the maze until numerous feeding trials were utilized.
Researchers believe that experiencing strong negative emotions such as fear or anxiety will increase people's need to affiliate
To test this idea, the researchers randomly assigned participants to one of two small groups. Members of Group 1 were left for 10 minutes in a room with no windows. While waiting, the lights went out for a brief period of time and the participants could hear screams from another room. Members of Group 2 were likewise left for 10 minutes in a room with no windows, but the lights were left on and no screams were heard. Researchers observed how frequently members of each group started conversations with other members of their group on non-experiment related topics. In this experiment, the hypothesis is that ________. A) brief periods of darkness will cause negative emotions B) strong negative emotions will increase people's need to affiliate with others C) isolation in a waiting room will affect people's need to affiliate D) people's need to affiliate will cause people to start more conversations E) members of small groups will affiliate with each other quickly