A Parent Hands Her Children a Dollar Each for Helping

question 23

Multiple Choice

A parent hands her children a dollar each for helping to rake leaves and also says,"And wasn't it great,all of us pitching in together,helping each other?" By reminding her children that the task was also enjoyable,she is working to

• A) avoid the overjustification effect.
• B) enhance leaf-raking performance.
• C) enhance their extrinsic motivation.
• D) undermine their intrinsic motivation.
• E) produce the overjustification effect.

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Definitions:

Economic Value Added

A measure of a company's financial performance based on residual wealth, calculated by deducting a firm's cost of capital from its net operating profit.

Net Present Value

A calculation that determines the value of a series of future cash flows in today's dollars, used to assess the profitability or viability of an investment or project.

Retained Earnings

The portion of a company's profits not distributed as dividends to shareholders, but instead reinvested in the business.