Nancy Is at a Staff Meeting

question 54

Multiple Choice

Nancy is at a staff meeting.Her manager asks if anyone has an idea for how to pull more customers into the restaurant at lunch time.Nancy starts to make a suggestion and her manager cuts her off mid-sentence,saying: "Oh Nancy,no...anyone else?" Nancy is feeling angry because her manager was disrespectful and didn't allow her to explain the idea.What should Nancy do to deal with these negative emotions?

• A) Submit the suggestion to her manager's boss.
• B) Ignore it. She thinks her manager is having a bad day.
• C) Leave the meeting since she isn't contributing anything of value.
• D) Wait until after the meeting and point out how important respect is between co-workers.
• E) Ask someone else to submit the idea at the next staff meeting.

Grasp the relationship between intelligence and socioeconomic outcomes.

Acknowledge the limitations and ethical considerations of using intelligence and aptitude tests for academic and career decisions.

Recognize the normal distribution as a statistical concept fundamental to understanding psychological measurements.

Understand the differences in government regulation between selling securities privately and publicly.

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Definitions:

Anxiety

A feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress; can affect day-to-day living if severe and persistent.

Rapid Speech

Speech that is faster than normal, which can be a symptom of certain medical conditions or nervous excitement.

Flight of Ideas

A rapid flow of thought, often manifesting as a symptom in conditions like bipolar disorder, characterized by rapid topic changes.

Echolalia

The repetition of words or phrases spoken by others, a speech pattern often found in people with autism and certain other conditions.