How Can Midge Use the Physical Environment Help Her Achieve

question 28

Multiple Choice

How can Midge use the physical environment help her achieve her goal of eating more fruit?

• A) Midge can ask her friend to remind her to eat a piece of fruit for a snack.
• B) Midge can tell herself daily, "I will eat an apple for a snack today."
• C) Midge can leave out a bowl of fruit on her kitchen counter.
• D) Midge can modify her goal to eat seven pieces of fruit in a week.
• E) Midge can use a smartphone app to track how much fruit she eats in a day.

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Definitions:

Lengel-Daft Contingency Model

A theoretical framework suggesting that the effectiveness of communication processes and mediums varies according to the uncertainty and complexity of the situation.

Rich Medium

Communication channels with the capacity to convey messages in a more understanding and effective manner through immediate feedback, multiple cues, and personalization.

Grapevine Distortion

The alteration or misinterpretation of messages as they pass through informal communication channels within an organization, often leading to misinformation.

Media Richness Hierarchy

A concept categorizing communication media according to their capacity to effectively convey information, ranging from rich media like face-to-face interactions to lean media like text messages.