One week into the job at the marketing and advertising division of a company, Alex, Neil and John were given the task of creatin
g an advertising campaign for the company's new product. Alex and Neil had much trouble with the task, and when John volunteered to take it up on their behalf, they readily agreed. Though they had no idea of John's skills in this area, they felt that John could be trusted to do a good job. John reviewed numerous articles, studied the new product thoroughly, and came up with a campaign that received good reviews from his team leaders. John's success in creating a good campaign for the new product completely on his own reflects his _____. Select one: a. social consensus b. ability c. trust propensity d. morality
Ability is the possession of talent, skill or proficiency in a particular area of thing by an individual. This skill could be acquired or be inherent though in latent stage in an individual.
In the case of John, his success in the creation of a good campaign for the new product in their company is as a result of his ability which he invested most of his time in in trying to review previous articles similar to what he was trying to solve.
The skill of being meticulous paid off leading to him coming up with a campaign that recieved good review.
An ability is the skill or quality to accomplish or achieve something. Without ability it will be impossible to do something, for instance, athletes are who they are because they have the ability to run fast. Ability can sometimes be referred to as mental strength or physical power to accomplish a task.
In the case of John, although they were no aware of the skill he had, on completing the task of creating a new campaign for a new product, it reflects his ability to do such task.
The term 'conservative' is used to denote 'someone who usually supports or favors the maintenance of status quo' and denies any kind of change or modification in the conventional institutions or beliefs. These people usually tend to show support, in fact rigidity to the 'social as well as economic status quo' and tend to show an opposition towards the introduction of any kind of new political arrangements or economic formulas that they view as a threat to their existing authority of beliefs/status quo. Therefore, such a person would be considered as 'conservative' in present context.
<span>As a developmental researcher he divides participants in his experiments into two categories. One category is for the individuals who did not have the developmental intervention the other is for those who did. This is how he is able to test his hypotheses.</span>
