Executives Who Have a Characteristic Called "Hardiness" Have a Sense

question 36

True/False

Executives who have a characteristic called "hardiness" have a sense of meaning that buffers them from becoming alienated in response to organizational stresses.

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Definitions:

Sensitization

An increase in behavioral response after exposure to a stimulus, often leading to an exaggerated response to a later stimulus.

Habituation

The process by which an organism decreases or ceases its responses to a repetitive stimulus over time.

Behavioral Contrast

A phenomenon where the rate of response to a stimulus changes significantly when the conditions of reinforcement for another stimulus are altered.

Higher-order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is first made meaningful or consequential for an organism through an initial step of learning, and then that stimulus is used as a basis for learning about some new stimulus.