Businesses Are Most Likely to Act in a Socially Responsible

question 20

Multiple Choice

Businesses are most likely to act in a socially responsible manner because:

• A) their shareholders demand that they act in this way
• B) competitors are acting in a socially responsible manner
• C) the Corporations Law requires them to report in relation to any significant environmental regulation to which they are subject
• D) consumers demand that they act in this way

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Definitions:

Brown-Peterson Task

A cognitive exercise used to assess short-term memory and attention span by having individuals try to remember trigrams or three-letter combinations after various distractions and intervals.

Short-Term Memory

The component of the memory system that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing for a brief period of time.

Decay

A hypothesized process of forgetting in which material is thought to erode, break apart, or otherwise disintegrate or fade.

Echoic Memory

A type of sensory memory that retains audio information for a short period after the original sound has ceased.