A Factory Worker Really Wants to Move Up in the Corporation

question 40

Multiple Choice

A factory worker really wants to move up in the corporation. He does his work, stays late, and is always looking for extra ways to help. He gets passed up for promotion after promotion. This will MOST LIKELY affect his ________.

• A) instrumentality
• B) valence
• C) expectancy
• D) equity

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.

Negative Reinforcement

A behavioral principle where the removal or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with learned behaviors from operant conditioning.

Operant Responding

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, emphasizing the effect of consequences on behavior in the future.