A Group in Great Britain Has Been Established to Improve

question 64

Multiple Choice

A group in Great Britain has been established to improve the employment, retention, and promotion prospects of blacks and other ethnic minorities as well as women in the Fire and Rescue Service, which at present has a largely white, male demographic. This team has two years to gather information and create a plan.

• A) self-designing
• B) project
• C) virtual
• D) cross-functional
• E) ad hoc

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Definitions:

Stimulus

An external or internal change that influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts.

Operant Conditioning

A technique of instruction where the potency of a conduct is influenced by rewarding or discouraging it.

Classical Conditioning

A method of pairing in learning where two stimuli are habitually associated; over time, the response originally from the second stimulus comes to be from the first stimulus alone.

Reinforcement

A principle in behavior theory in which a behavior is strengthened or made more likely to occur in the future by consequences that follow it.