You Joined a Team Just as It Was Finishing Up

Multiple Choice

You joined a team just as it was finishing up a big and much anticipated project at your company. You feel a little insecure as the team's newest member and the one who contributed the least to this project. At the next staff meeting your boss thanks you for all your hard work in making the project a success. Instead of this making you feel good, you feel uncomfortable, interpreting the comment as a sarcastic remark about how little you actually participated in this project. This is an example of a ________.

A) psychological barrier
B) semantic barrier
C) language barrier
D) physiological barrier
E) mixed message