Which of These Statements About the Field of Organizational Behaviour

question 137

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements about the field of organizational behaviour is FALSE?

• A)Organizational behaviour scholars study individual,team,and structural characteristics that influence behaviour within organizations.
• B)Leadership,communication,and other organizational behaviour topics were not discussed by scholars until the 1940s.
• C)Organizational behaviour emerged as a distinct field around the 1940s.
• D)The field of OB has adopted concepts and theories from other fields of inquiry.
• E)OB scholars study what people think,feel,and do in and around organizations.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli or signals in the environment, often relevant in learning and conditioning.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, aiming to influence the occurrence of behavior through these consequences.

Higher-order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is paired with a previously conditioned stimulus, leading to a new learned response without directly being paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Negative Reinforcement

A technique used to increase desired behaviors by removing an unpleasant stimulus when the desired behavior is performed.