__________ Refers to the Authority of Administrators in the Federal

question 9

Multiple Choice

__________ refers to the authority of administrators in the federal bureaucracy to make choices concerning the best way to implement policies and spend money.

• A)Adjudication
• B)Discretion
• C)Division of labor
• D)Independence

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Definitions:

Selective Perception

Process of seeing, hearing, or making sense of the world around us based on such factors as our personality, beliefs, attitudes, hopes, fears, and culture, as well as what we like and do not like.

Punctuation

Process of making sense out of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing, separating, and categorizing information.

Thin Slicing

Observing a small sample of someone’s behavior and then making a generalization about what the person is like, based on that sample.

Predicted Outcome Value Theory

A theory in interpersonal communication suggesting the initial interactions between individuals are used to predict the future value of the relationship, influencing whether interactions will continue.