Adam Is Looking for a Job in Marketing

question 147

Multiple Choice

Adam is looking for a job in marketing.He has had some offers and his prospects are promising,but he has not yet accepted a job.Amanda lost her job working for Mercury Bicycles because many customers decided they prefer bicycles manufactured by Ultimate Bicycles instead.Who is frictionally unemployed?

• A)Adam but not Amanda
• B)Amanda but not Adam
• C)both Adam and Amanda
• D)neither Amanda nor Adam

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

A common cognitive bias where individuals attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Actor-Observer Effect

A cognitive bias in which people tend to attribute their own actions to external circumstances but attribute others' actions to their personalities or character.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember the first pieces of information in a series better than the information in the middle.

Computer Programming

The process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.