Which of the Following Best Describes the Hawthorne Effect

question 73

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the Hawthorne effect?

• A) It refers to the tendency of people who are singled out for special attention to perform as anticipated because of expectations created by the situation.
• B) It implies that satisfied need does not motivate behaviour.
• C) It refers to a need that is activated only when the next-lower-level need is satisfied.
• D) It implies that people dislike work, lack ambition, act irresponsibly, and prefer to be led.
• E) It implies that people are willing to work, like responsibility, and are self-directed and creative.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Point Estimate

Single value used to estimate an unknown population parameter.

Population Parameter

A numerical value that represents a characteristic of an entire population, such as its mean or standard deviation.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly the mean; it is used to estimate the accuracy of a sample mean compared to the population mean.