What Is Operations Management

question 50

Multiple Choice

What is operations management?

• A) A field concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information
• B) The function of selling a good or service and focuses on increasing customer sales, which increases company revenues
• C) The function that plans for, develops, implements, and maintains IT hardware, software, and the portfolio of applications that people use to support the goals of an organization
• D) The management of systems or processes that convert or transform resources into goods and services

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Definitions:

Discrimination Learning

The ability to differentiate between various stimuli or situations based on learned characteristics.

Generalization Gradient

The degree to which learned behavior is conducted in response to variations of the original conditioned stimulus, showing the relationship between similarity to the original stimulus and behavioral response.

Discrimination Training

A learning process in which an organism learns to respond differently to various stimuli that are not identical.

Inhibition Generalizes

A psychological phenomenon where the suppression of a response to a particular stimulus also suppresses responses to similar stimuli.