Jenna Leigh Is an Information Savvy,20-Something Person Who Is Trying

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Multiple Choice

Jenna Leigh is an information savvy,20-something person who is trying to select between two marketing job offers.She can either join a company that makes small hammers and screwdrivers for the do-it-yourself hardware store business,or she can join a company developing the fourth generation cell phone service.She is quite impressed that the hardware business is growing quite nicely in China,Mexico,and India where people are starting to expand their living spaces.She is also aware of:

• A)Declines in the telecommunications business now that new cell phone service companies are springing-up everywhere.
• B)A decline in the domestic hardware market due to older Americans losing interest in keeping up their living quarters.
• C)An information-based global revolution that might make her career at a telecommunications company more lucrative in the long run.
• D)An increase in the price of the actual cell phones must indicate that there is still a great demand for phones.

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Definitions:

Reciprocal Determinism

A psychological principle indicating that an individual's actions are simultaneously shaped by and shape their own characteristics and the surrounding milieu.

Self-serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Self-esteem

An individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth, encompassing beliefs about oneself as well as emotional states.

Extraversion

A personality trait marked by outgoingness, high energy, and positive emotions towards social interactions.