James Worked for Three Years for a Company in Which

question 146

Multiple Choice

James worked for three years for a company in which the supervisors constantly criticized the employees, promoted their friends, and unfairly set work schedules.It has now been seven years since James worked for this company, and he cannot seem to remember the names of the people he worked with or even the details of the unfair treatment he received.James' forgetting is most likely due to

• A) memory decay.
• B) disuse.
• C) redintegration.
• D) repression.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in psychology where an automatic conditioned response is paired with a specific stimulus, originally discovered by Ivan Pavlov.

Law of Effect

A psychological principle stating that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are likely to be repeated, while those followed by negative outcomes are less likely to be repeated.

Negative Reinforcement

The process of increasing desired behaviors by removing or avoiding a negative stimulus.

OB Mod

Stands for Organizational Behavior Modification, which is a technique used to improve productivity and behavior in the workplace by applying principles of behavioral psychology.