Which of the Following People Is Frictionally Unemployed

question 184

Multiple Choice

Which of the following people is frictionally unemployed?

• A)Cara,an executive who lost her job because her company could not compete with foreign competition and whose skills are not wanted by other companies
• B)Tran,a building construction supervisor who was fired because of a downturn in the building industry that is the result of a general downturn in the economy
• C)Eugene,a pharmaceutical drug salesman who was laid off when his company lost a large contract with an HMO
• D)Amanda,a sales associate at J.C.Penney who quit her job to attend school full time
• E)Samantha,who worked part-time in J.C.Penney to help with the Christmas rush but was laid off in January

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Definitions:

Excitatory Potential

The likelihood that a specific event will elicit a specific response.

Drive Reduction

A theory of motivation suggesting that behaviors are motivated by the desire to reduce internal states of tension.

Incentive Motivation

The idea that the level of motivation is affected by magnitude of reward: The greater the reward magnitude, the higher the motivation to obtain that reward.