Which of the Following Is True Regarding U

question 617

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true regarding U.S. federal government expenditures?

• A) National defense has fallen from 52.2 percent of the federal budget in 1960 to 21 percent in 2008.
• B) Federal expenditures on income transfers and health care have risen from 21.5 percent of the budget in 1960 to 57.7 percent in 2008.
• C) Corrected for inflation, the average person today pays more federal taxes in one week than the average person in 1900 paid in an entire year.
• D) All of the above are true.

Appreciate the connection between attitudes and behaviors in the organizational context.

Understand the role of self-concept (self-esteem, locus of control) in shaping responses to organizational challenges.

Identify the values and attitudes characteristic of different generational cohorts within the workplace.

Grasp the basic concepts of attitude formation and its components.

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Definitions:

Unconscious

The part of the mind that is not within thought's immediate reach and that contains desires, wishes, and motivations unknown to the individual.

Preconscious

represents thoughts and feelings that are not immediately in consciousness but can be accessed through attention or stimuli.

Id

In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that is the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept that describes the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs.