What Is the Relationship Between Monetary Incentives in Goal Setting

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Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between monetary incentives in goal setting and performance?

• A)Goal setting has led to performance increases without monetary incentives for goal accomplishment.
• B)Goal setting has led to performance decreases with monetary incentives for goal accomplishment.
• C)Goal setting has led to performance decreases when monetary incentives are not provided for goal accomplishment.
• D)Goal setting only leads to performance increases when monetary incentives for goal accomplishment are provided.
• E)It depends on the employees and the incentive.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The difficulty in learning new information because of the interference from existing similar information.

Retrieval Cue

A stimulus that helps a person recall or recognize stored information.

Interference

A hypothesized process of forgetting in which material is thought to be buried or otherwise displaced by other information but still exists somewhere in a memory store.

Long-term Memory

A type of memory responsible for storing information for extended periods of time, ranging from several minutes to a lifetime, and includes various forms such as episodic and semantic memory.