Scenario: Allison Albright Your Roommate, Allison Albright, Is a Non-Business Major.When She Discovered

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Scenario: Allison Albright
Your roommate, Allison Albright, is a non-business major.When she discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, she was thoroughly confused as to why one would need to study OB and what it entails.Based on what you have studied, can you help Allison answer some of her questions?
-To help Allison understand some preliminary information about OB, which of these statements about the field is FALSE?

• A)Organizational behavior scholars study individual, team and structural characteristics that influence behavior within organizations.
• B)The field of OB has adopted concepts and theories from other fields of inquiry.
• C)Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field around the 1940s.
• D)Given the specific utility of the field, OB is useful for the managers in the organizations and not the employees.
• E)OB scholars study what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations.

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Definitions:

Secondary Reinforcement

A type of reinforcement that has acquired its reinforcing properties through association with primary reinforcers, such as money or praise.

Variable-Interval Schedule

A type of reinforcement schedule where reinforcements are provided at unpredictable time intervals, promoting steady response rates.

Postreinforcement Pause

A moment of no response or inactivity that occurs just after reinforcement in a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement in operant conditioning.

Fixed Ratio Schedule

A reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses, promoting a high and steady rate of responding.