Which Statement About the Selection of Standards Is True

question 17

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the selection of standards is true?

• A) Ideal standards tend to extract higher performance levels since they give employees something to live up to.
• B) Currently attainable standards may encourage operating inefficiencies.
• C) Currently attainable standards discourage employees from achieving their full performance potential.
• D) Ideal standards demand maximum efficiency, which may leave workers frustrated, thus causing a decline in performance.

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Definitions:

Absolute Threshold

The minimum intensity of stimulation that must be achieved in order for a stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.

Taste Cells

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Gustav Fechner

A German scientist who founded psychophysics and proposed the Fechner's law, relating physical stimuli to the sensation of their intensity.

Correct Rejection

In signal detection theory, the decision to correctly identify the absence of a signal or stimulus.