Marketing Department Actions Can Increase Purchasing Costs, Disrupt Production Schedules

question 40

Multiple Choice

Marketing department actions can increase purchasing costs, disrupt production schedules, increase inventories, and create budget headaches. Thus, other departments may the marketing department's efforts.

• A) resist
• B) encourage
• C) support
• D) develop
• E) favour

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Definitions:

Learned Response

A behavior that has been acquired through conditioning or learning, as opposed to being a natural, instinctive reaction.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, it refers to the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

CR Fading

A technique in conditioning where the conditioned response diminishes over time when reinforcement is removed.

Conditioned Fear

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with an aversive stimulus, leading to the elicitation of fear responses to the neutral stimulus.