The Mum Effect Can Occur for All of the Following

question 11

Multiple Choice

The mum effect can occur for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• A)an employee's fear of retribution for bringing bad news.
• B)an employee's unwillingness to identify personal mistakes.
• C)an employee's general desire to please.
• D)an employee's desire to be polite.
• E)an employee's desire to speak out at meetings.

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Definitions:

Parental Reading

The activity of parents reading to their children, which is beneficial for language acquisition and literacy skills.

Quasi-Experiment

A research design that attempts to establish a cause-and-effect relationship but lacks the random assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups.

Control Group

In experimental research, the group of participants that does not receive the intervention being tested, used as a benchmark to measure the effect of the intervention.

Independent Variable

A variable that is manipulated to determine its effects on a dependent variable in an experiment.