Elena Works in a Data Processing Department for a Large

question 60

Multiple Choice

Elena works in a data processing department for a large credit reporting service and is bored. She spends her days inputting an endless stream of monotonous data into much larger data bases. According to the job characteristics model (JCM) , one of the primary reasons for her boredom is ____.

• A)a low degree of feedback
• B)a high degree of autonomy
• C)a low degree of task identity
• D)a high degree of task significance
• E)a high degree of skill variety

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Definitions:

Prezygotic

Referring to mechanisms that prevent fertilization or mating between species, such as geographical separation or timing differences in mating.

Postzygotic

Referring to events that occur after the formation of a zygote, affecting hybrid viability or fertility.

Phyletic Gradualism

Phyletic gradualism is an evolutionary model proposing that species evolve through gradual changes of traits over long periods of time.

Punctuated Equilibrium

A theory in evolutionary biology that suggests species evolve rapidly during short periods of time followed by long periods of stasis.