Your Sweater Company Is Having an Unusually Large Amount of Business

question 9

Multiple Choice

Your sweater company is having an unusually large amount of business due to an extremely cold winter.Your boss expects you to keep up with your work,but won't allow overtime because of cost cutting throughout the company.You suggest that they hire another person,although you realize the large volume of business is temporary.When you discuss this with your boss,you both decide that your boss can help you temporarily,thus finding an inexpensive solution to your problem.This is an example of which communication pattern?

• A)Logrolling
• B)Cost cutting
• C)Bridging
• D)Compromising
• E)Competing

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Definitions:

Mental Activity

Any cognitive process that involves thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, or the processing of information.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that depends on the first examples that spring to mind when considering a particular subject, idea, approach, or choice.

Confirmation Bias

The disposition to seek, grasp, esteem, and recount information that confirms existing preconceptions or theories.

Belief Perseverance

The phenomenon where people hold onto their beliefs even when faced with evidence that contradicts or disproves them.