Under What Circumstances May Private and Public Sector Employers Monitor

question 12

Multiple Choice

Under what circumstances may private and public sector employers monitor employees' use of employer-owned computers?

• A)Only with an appropriate notice.
• B)Only through a written warrant.
• C)Only with the permission of state authorities.
• D)Employers cannot monitor employees' use of computers.

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Definitions:

Reward System

A group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., motivation and desire), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly those involved in reward-associated memory.

Psychodynamic Theory

Sigmund Freud’s perspective, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as forces that determine behavior.

Conflicting Personality

A situation or condition where an individual's traits or behaviors are at odds, leading to internal tension or inconsistency.

Drive-Reduction Theory

The view that organisms learn to engage in behaviors that have the effect of reducing drives.