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ashley · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

An employee's supervisor places full confidence in the employee and believes that the employee can handle a fairly difficult task. This boosts the employee's self-esteem which in turn increases her performance. This phenomena is known as:

a. consistency
b. the Pygmalion effect
c. the Golem effect
d. socially influenced self-esteem

Question 2

An employee thinks he is an idiot and will never be able to master the new computer system. The employee takes a training class on the new system and fails. This situation might best be explained by:

a. social learning theory
b. the Galatea effect
c. expectancy theory
d. equity theory