Lisa Works on a Team Where All of the Members

question 40

Multiple Choice

Lisa works on a team where all of the members are highly sociable.Her team should do particularly well on ________ tasks,but poorly on ________ tasks.

• A) teaching; accounting
• B) problem-solving; teaching
• C) engineering; problem-solving
• D) routine; artistic

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Definitions:

Psychophysics

The branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and sensory perceptions and responses.

Discriminated Stimuli

Stimuli in operant conditioning that signal when a particular response will lead to a certain outcome.

Detected Stimuli

Sensory input from the environment that is recognized and processed by the nervous system.

Signal-Detection Theory

The theory that perceiving or not perceiving a stimulus is actually a judgment about whether a momentary sensory experience is due to background noise alone or to the background noise plus a signal.