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Advanced Industrial Psychology PSY 560 Midterm review

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Quiz am Advanced Industrial Psychology PSY 560 Midterm review, erstellt von Luna Park am 09/10/2015.
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Frage 1

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What is the old view of organizational systems?
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  • Demographically diverse, continuous learning, self-managed work teams, focus on self-reliance.
  • Stable and predictable, hierarchy, top-down command and control.

Frage 2

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What is the contemporary view of organizations?
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  • Globalized and focus on speed, constantly changing, organized around networks, more demographically diverse, continuous learning, self-managed work teams, focus on self-reliance.
  • Stable and predictable, hierarchy, top-down command and control.

Frage 3

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Which of these does not fit the 3 C's of the past manager role?
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  • Command.
  • Conquer.
  • Control.
  • Compartment.

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Which if these does not fit the contemporary perspective for managers?
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  • Incumbents to Managers
  • Controllers to Coaches.
  • Planners to Facilitators.
  • Inspectors to Mentors.

Frage 5

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Which source has not resulted in changes in jobs and job performance in recent times?
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  • Technology.
  • Globalization.
  • Economic Stability.
  • Mergers & acquisitions.

Frage 6

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Which of these is a benefit of recent changes in jobs and job performance?
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  • Challenge.
  • Increased Personal Control.
  • Insecurity.
  • All of the Above.
  • None of the Above.
  • Both A and B.
  • Both A and C.

Frage 7

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What defines each job in terms of the behaviors necessary to perform it and is used to develop hypotheses about the personal characteristics necessary to perform those behaviors?
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  • Job specifications
  • Minimum qualifications
  • Job analysis
  • Job descriptions

Frage 8

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The following characteristics are representative of what? Qualifications, experience, training, skills, responsibilities, emotional characteristics, sensory demands.
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  • Job analysis
  • Job specifications
  • Job description
  • Minimum qualifications

Frage 9

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The following characteristics are representative of what? Job title, job location, job summary, working conditions, job duties, conditions of employment, hazards, social environment.
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  • Minimum qualifications
  • Job description
  • Job specifications
  • Job analysis

Frage 10

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Job descriptions are useful for:
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  • Selection
  • Training
  • Person power planning
  • Job classification
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Frage 11

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The first step of conducting a job analysis is
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  • Writing task statements
  • Rating task statements
  • Determining essential KSAOs
  • Gathering existing information

Frage 12

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Which is not a method of collecting job analysis data?
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  • SME panels
  • Questionnaires
  • ONet
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Frage 13

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What evidence is available regarding job analysis reliability and validity?
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  • Daniels & Weiss
  • Davidson & Wurtz
  • Dierdorff & Wilson
  • Donalds & West

Frage 14

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According to the Dierdorff & Wilson(2003) Meta-analysis, who showed higher inter-rater reliability?
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  • Incumbents
  • Researchers
  • Analysts
  • Supervisors

Frage 15

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According to the Dierdorff & Wilson(2003) Meta-analysis, what type of analysis is better?
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  • Cognitive
  • Task focused
  • Knowledge based
  • None of the above

Frage 16

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_____________________ scales using importance and difficulty had higher inter-rater reliability than __________________scales.
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  • Frequency, Temporal
  • Frequency, Descriptive
  • Descriptive, Frequency
  • Descriptive, Temporal

Frage 17

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What is an evaluative standard, rule, or test by which a person may be judged or measured?
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  • Reliability
  • Criteria
  • Validity
  • KSAO

Frage 18

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What criteria should be used to establish MQs for a job?
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  • Influenced directly by the desire to artificially manipulate candidate pool.
  • Realistically expected to exist in the pool of candidates.
  • Determined based on the existing qualifications of incumbents or candidates being groomed.
  • Indirectly linked to functional areas/KSAs

Frage 19

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When conducting a job analysis, average ratings of importance or frequency under .5 should be eliminated.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 20

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Criterion contamination is when we measure things that are not related to the job.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 21

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Sources of criterion contamination include
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  • Prejudice
  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Bias

Frage 22

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Which of these does not belong?
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  • Bias occurs through knowledge of the predictor.
  • Bias occurs through ratings.
  • Bias occurs through group membership.
  • Bias occurs through error.

Frage 23

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Ratings can be biased through
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  • Adequate observations
  • Limited opportunities to perform
  • Ability to distinguish skills

Frage 24

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__________________ of criteria refers to the way employees performance varies over time.
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  • Reliability
  • Temporal nature
  • Standard Error
  • Validity

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Job Performance reliability refers to the method of observation and its effect on conclusions.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 26

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Examples of the dimensionality of job performance are: job and location, sales performance, leadership.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 27

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Criteria may be temporal or dynamic in 3 distinct ways:
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  • Changes over time in rank ordering of scores on the criterion.
  • Changes over time in the leadership of the organization.
  • Changes over time in average levels of group performance.
  • Changes over time in validity coefficients.

Frage 28

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Test/Re-test Reliability measurements should be taken over 6 months apart.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 29

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Reliability refers to
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  • Creating alternative, equal forms for the same test
  • Administering the same test on two different occasions
  • Freedom of unsystematic errors of measurement
  • Pearson product moment correlation coefficient

Frage 30

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Any factor that influences performance on one occasion but not the other might introduce bias and influence the reliability of the measure.
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  • True
  • False

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Parallel forms of reliability are also known as
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  • Alternative
  • Equivalent
  • Counterpart
  • A and C
  • A and B
  • B and C

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To increase reliability, reduce the variability of differences in individuals taking the test.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 33

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Higher variability = higher reliability.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 34

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The difficulty of a test item should be high, to weed out poor test takers.
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  • True
  • False

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The smaller the sample size, the larger the sampling error and lower reliability.
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  • True
  • False

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If reliability is 1, standard error of measurement is 0.
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  • True
  • False

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Higher standard error = higher reliability.
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  • True
  • False

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Standard error of measurement is the standard deviation of the normal distribution of scores that an individual would obtain if they took the same test 100 times.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

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Internal consistency reliability is
Antworten
  • The extent to which all parts of a measure are similar in what they are measuring.
  • Used to assess the consistency of results across items within a test.
  • An indicator of the degree to which various items on a test are intercorrelated.
  • All of the above.
  • None of the above.

Frage 40

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Internal Consistency Reliability according to the textbook is
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  • .90 for a procedure
  • .80 and above for applied purposes
  • .70 for research purposes
  • 1

Frage 41

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The two (2) widely used methods of Internal Consistency Reliability are
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  • Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
  • Kudar Richardson Estimates
  • Split-half
  • None of the above

Frage 42

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The most used formula for the Kudar-Richardson Reliability Estimates is
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  • KR-50
  • KR-10
  • KR-90
  • KR-20

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Split-half reliability estimate is interpreted as
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  • Coefficient of stability
  • Coefficient of reliability
  • Coefficient of equivalence
  • Coefficient of validity

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Coefficient of stability is a measurement of the correlation between
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  • 2 parallel forms of the same test
  • 2 time points where the subjects and measuring instrument are the same
  • 2 groups of subjects taking the test

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To compute coefficient of stability use test/re-test.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 46

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Coefficient of equivalence refers to the correlation between
Antworten
  • the same tests given on two different occasions
  • 2 parallel forms
  • 2 different groups of subjects taking the same test

Frage 47

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For the coefficient of stability and equivalence, to guard against order effects, both halves of the examinees are given test A, followed by test B.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 48

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The main advantages of computing reliability using the coefficient of stability and equivalence are
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  • Random Error responses
  • Bias responses
  • Specific factor errors
  • Transient errors
  • All of the Above

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Coefficient of equivalence is also known as
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  • ρ
  • α
  • ε
  • Σ

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Random error is an error caused by unknown and unpredictable changes in the experiment.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 51

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Random errors increase the consistency and usefulness of test scores.
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  • True
  • False

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Random error varies randomly from occasion to occasion therefore:
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  • obtained scores are equal to true scores
  • obtained scores are different from true scores
  • true scores are lower than obtained scores
  • true scores are higher than obtained scores

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Reliability can range from 0 - 1.
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  • True
  • False

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Cronbach's alpha is calculated to measure
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  • Test/Re-test reliability
  • Internal Consistency Reliability
  • Coefficient of stability
  • Coefficient of reliability

Frage 55

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Standard error of measurement helps establish confidence intervals.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 56

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Which of these examples are sources of random error?
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  • Poor lighting
  • Noises
  • Temperature
  • Mood
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

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Validity is the extent to which the measurement are repeatable.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 58

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The Trinitarian view of validity requires which of these to be considered very valid?
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  • Construct validity
  • Content validity
  • Criterion validity
  • All three separately

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The Unitarian view of validity requires which of these to be considered highly valid?
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  • Construct validity
  • Content validity
  • Criterion validity
  • All three equally
  • All three separately

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Evidence related to the meaning of the construct and its relationship with other constructs is
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  • Content validity
  • Construct validity
  • Criterion validity
  • None of the above

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The extent to which your measure contains a fair sample of the universe of situations it is supposed to represent is :
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  • Construct validity
  • Criterion validity
  • Content validity
  • None of the above

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How well your assessment tool is related to the criteria/test adequacy based on correlations with the criteria is known as
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  • Construct validity
  • Criterion validity
  • Content validity
  • None of the above

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Construct validity can be gathered by calibrating the test against an established measure, known standard, or against itself.
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  • True
  • False

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Content validity can be gathered by SMEs, whose responses are evaluated to make decisions about the content.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 65

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Problems with Predictive validity include
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  • Small sample size
  • Uncontrolled variables
  • Bias

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Which of the following is a problem with concurrent validity?
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  • Small sample size
  • Longitudinal nature of the study
  • Uncontrolled variables

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Concurrent validity is measured when :
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  • the criterion measure is available after the predictor measure is taken.
  • the criterion and predictor are collected at the same time.
  • The predictor measure is taken.

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Predictive validity is when a criterion measure is available after the predictor measure is taken.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 69

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Challanges of changes in job and job performance include:
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  • Insecurity
  • Challenge
  • Flexibility
  • High costs

Frage 70

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Which of these is not a major step in conducting a job analysis?
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  • Identify the tasks performed
  • Write task statements
  • Rate task statements
  • Determine KSAOs
  • Rate KSAOs
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