A Person Who Makes a Public Statement About a Planned

question 19

True/False

A person who makes a public statement about a planned action (for example,announcing to your employees that "I will increase profits in this company by 20 percent.")
is less likely to accomplish that action than someone who remains quiet about his or her plans.

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Definitions:

Recognition

The identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.

Recall

The mental process of retrieving information from the past, often without the aid of external cues.

Parallel Distributed Processing

A computational approach in cognitive science that models mental processes as occurring across networks of simple units working in parallel, simulating how information is processed in the brain.

Connectionist Model

A cognitive model based on the concept that mental phenomena can be described by interconnected networks of simple units.