If an Employee Does Not Exhibit a Desired Behavior, a Manager

question 115

Multiple Choice

If an employee does not exhibit a desired behavior, a manager might use ______.

• A) shaping to guide the employee to learn the desired behavior
• B) positive reinforcement by reducing the threat of a punishment
• C) negative reinforcement to increase the recurrence of the behavior
• D) disappearance to make a behavior disappear

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Definitions:

Presuppositions

Implicit assumptions or beliefs that are taken for granted in communication or reasoning.

Innate Ideas

Ideas that we are born with, which may include tendencies to think in certain ways that are hardwired into our minds.

Empirical Ideas

Concepts or thoughts derived from or verified by observation, experience, or experiment as opposed to theory or pure logic.

Indubitable

Not susceptible to being doubted.