You Time Someone Completing a Single Task the First Time

question 29

True/False

You time someone completing a single task the first time at 100 minutes, and the fourth time they do the task it takes 81 minutes. You should use a 90 percent learning curve to estimate the length of time this worker will take to complete this task in the future.

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Definitions:

Hypnosis

A trance-like state of focused attention and increased suggestibility, often used therapeutically to alter perceptions, behaviors, and sensations.

Wish Fulfillment

is a concept in psychoanalytic theory suggesting that dreams or fantasies are a means for individuals to satisfy unmet desires or needs.

Reflexive Action

An automatic, involuntary reaction to a stimulus, bypassing conscious thought.

Id

In Freud’s structural model, the part of personality concerned with immediate gratification of needs.