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Question: Organizations that are formed to offer services to clients and not make a profit are ________, whereas ________ are those organizations that are formed to make money, or profits, by offering products or services.

Answer Choices:
a) unions; associations
b) nonprofit organizations; associations
c) for-profit organizations; nonprofit organizations
d) nonprofit organizations; for-profit organizations
e) co-ops; for-profit organizations

Answer: d) nonprofit organizations; for-profit organizations

Question: Suggestions for improvement, training new people, and care for organizational property are examples of __________.

Answer Choices:
a) self-serving bias
b) casual attribution
c) organizational citizenship behaviors.
d) self-efficacy
e) counterproductive work behaviors.

Answer: c) organizational citizenship behaviors.

Question: Job ________ is the opposite of _________.

Answer Choices:
a) enlargement; job enrichment
b) rotation; job focus
c) rotation; job enlargement
d) enlargement; scientific management
e) loading; job enrichment

Answer: d) enlargement; scientific management

Question: An accounting firm reimburses employees for tuition and fees if they complete job-related coursework with a B or better. The accounting firm’s tuition-reimbursement policy helps its employees meet their _________ needs.

Answer Choices:
a) physiological
b) safety
c) self-actualization
d) love

Answer: c) self-actualization

Question: Managers Sophie and Bill know that their employees will show higher levels of commitment to the company if they are able to increase ________. This will make the top executive happy because overall their employees will elicit higher performance and lower employee turnover.

Answer Choices:
a) job satisfaction
b) perception
c) leadership
d) employee engagement
e) organizational behavior

Answer: d) employee engagement

Question: Which of the following is a process perspective on motivation?

Answer Choices:
a) self-determination theory
b) goal-setting theory
c) two-factor theory
d) acquired needs theory
e) job characteristics model

Answer: b) goal-setting theory

Question: From which of the following structures does the neural tube ultimately form?

Answer Choices:
Ectoderm
Microderm
Endoderm
Mesoderm

Answer: Ectoderm

Question: The primary cause of Huntington’s disease appears to be _______________.

Answer Choices:
Exposure to radiation at a very young age
A genetic mutation that results in the production of abnormally long proteins
The consumption of large amounts of sugar, carbohydrates, and gluten at a young age
A lower than normal level of glial cells in the prefrontal cortex

Answer: A genetic mutation that results in the production of abnormally long proteins

Question: What process does the chemoaffinity hypothesis explain? Explain, in as much detail what it is and how it works.

Answer: The chemoaffinity hypothesis explains how regenerating retinal cells manage to reestablish their synaptic contacts.

Question: Damage at which of the following levels would be most detrimental to sensory function?

Answer Choices:
Primary sensory cortex
Secondary sensory cortex
Receptors
Association cortex

Answer: Receptors

Question: The _______________ is directly responsible for transducing sound from mechanical to electrochemical signals.

Answer Choices:
Cochlea
Oval window
Tympanic membrane
Round window

Answer: Cochlea

Question: You hear a recording and recognize it as your best friend’s voice. This is possible due to the functioning of your _______________.

Answer Choices:
Lateral olives
Anterior auditory pathway
Posterior auditory pathway
Medial olives

Answer: Anterior auditory pathway

Question: Which of the following pathways carries information about pain and temperature?

Answer Choices:
Dorsal-column medial-lemniscus
Anterolateral
Posterior auditory
Anterior auditory

Answer: Anterolateral

Question: Which of the following is most likely to be able to regenerate their central nervous system?

Answer Choices:
Worms
Humans
Birds
Cats

Answer: Worms

Question: Which of the following conditions is characterized by areas of hardened tissue in the central nervous system?

Answer Choices:
William’s syndrome
Multiple sclerosis
Huntington’s disease
Parkinson’s disease

Answer: Multiple sclerosis

Question: Prior to having a seizure, a patient typically smells burning popcorn. This olfactory sensation is referred to as _______________.

Answer Choices:
A tonic-clonic seizure
A partial seizure
An absence seizure
An epileptic aura

Answer: An epileptic aura

Question: The term _______________ refers to a process in which the axon of a neuron is severed.

Answer Choices:
Primary severance
Axotomy
Neurotomy
Secondary severance

Answer: Axotomy

Question: Evolutionary psychologists have theorized that early human tool use may be responsible for _______________.

Answer Choices:
The lateralization of language processing
Advances in immune system functioning
The domestication of dogs
The helping-hand phenomenon

Answer: The lateralization of language processing

Question: Which of the following translates visual words (e.g., from a book) to auditory code?

Answer Choices:
The arcuate fasciculus
The angular gyrus
Broca’s area
Wernicke’s area

Answer: The angular gyrus