Identify Several Tools a PM Can Use to Control a Project

question 57

Short Answer

Identify several tools a PM can use to control a project plan.

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Definitions:

Social Categorization

The assignment of a person one has just met to a category based on characteristics the new person has in common with other people with whom one has had experience in the past.

Cognitive Dissonance

A psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the frequency of an organism's behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Positive Reinforcement

A process in operant conditioning where a behavior is followed by a rewarding stimulus, increasing the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.