If a Person Who Is the Reference Gives Negative Information

question 57

Multiple Choice

If a person who is the reference gives negative information about the job candidate,there is a chance the candidate will claim _____,meaning the person damaged the applicant's reputation by making statements that cannot be proved truthful.

• A) defamation
• B) misappropriation
• C) fraud
• D) misrepresentation
• E) negligence

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Definitions:

Instrumental Learning Theory

A concept in psychology that emphasizes learning through the consequences of our actions, often involving rewards and punishments.

Relational Aggression Theory

A theoretical framework that explains aggressive behavior through the manipulation of social relationships, including actions like exclusion, gossip, or the withdrawal of friendship.

Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration and, conversely, that frustration leads to some form of aggression.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalytic theory, emphasizing unconscious processes and childhood experiences.