A Special Surveillance and Rescue Team Is Being Deployed to Counter

question 34

Multiple Choice

A special surveillance and rescue team is being deployed to counter the menace of pirates in the Indian Ocean. Nick, Sid, and Kevin are the core members of the team. Nick was elected as the leader of the team. Sid is responsible for monitoring the team's progress toward its goals. Kevin took on the role of motivator and confidence builder for the team. This team has worked together before and has developed a high level of common understanding regarding the team and its mission. Members also strongly believe that the team can be effective across a variety of situations and tasks. As a standard practice, before deployment, the team members observe how other members perform their roles by shadowing and going through simulations. The team's high level of common understanding refers to which of the following?

• A) potency
• B) cohesion
• C) transactive memory
• D) mental models
• E) boundary spanning

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

a method of learning that uses rewards and punishments to influence behavior.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.

Observational Learning

A form of social learning where behaviors are learned by watching and imitating others.

Modeling

Demonstrating a behavior to imitate a behavior that was previously observed.