Karen Has Been Asked to Head a Team at Work

question 29

Multiple Choice

Karen has been asked to head a team at work that is charged with finding new ways to develop products for their marketing group. She has asked her team members to begin exploring approaches that have worked in the past and to identify approaches that have not worked before. This is an example of _____.

• A)avoiding mental sets
• B)generating alternatives
• C)adopting a questioning attitude
• D)testing possible solutions
• E)sleeping on it

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Definitions:

Baseline Occurrence

The rate at which a behavior occurs before any intervention or conditioning is applied.

Probability-Differential Theory

The idea that an activity will have reinforcing properties when its probability of occurrence is greater than that of the reinforced activity.

Reinforcing Perception

The process through which the recognition or understanding of sensory information is strengthened, particularly in the context of learning and behavior modification.

Timberlake and Allison

Researchers known for their contributions to behavioral psychology, focusing on how organisms adapt their behavior to changes in the environment.