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PSYC406 FInal Exam Study Quiz (Ch. 11)

PSYC406 FInal Exam Study Quiz (Ch. 11)

Question 1 of 49

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I/O psychology (industrial and organizational) is the psychology that deals with behavior in work situations and emphasizes criterion related validity over other forms of validity. True/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 2 of 49

1

Why is criterion validity emphasized in I/O psychology?

Select one of the following:

  • because you want to make sure people are good at the job they are doing

  • because it preaches that current results predict future work behaviors

  • Because it allows for a more internally consistent text

  • because only one criterion is important when assessing people's behavior in any workforce

Explanation

Question 3 of 49

1

The biodata approach to personnel selection is based on the idea that previous behaviour predicts future behaviour. Which of the following would be expected on a biodata test?

Select one or more of the following:

  • How long have you lived at your current address?

  • What is our attitude towards others who use marijuana?

  • Have you ever been fired from a job?

  • In the future do you expect you will be late to work often?

Explanation

Question 4 of 49

1

Response elaboration technique (RET) requires applicants to elaborate on their responses to biodata questions in order to reduce faking. True/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 49

1

What is NOT true about biodata testing?

Select one or more of the following:

  • includes basic background and info, as well as attitudinal/emotional/judgemental data

  • There are no laws to stop employers from using biodata approaches to select employees

  • Only biodata and peer evaluations measure up to standardized testing when it comes to predictability of work performance

  • It captures the most innovative and alternate employees that will diversify the company

Explanation

Question 6 of 49

1

Kimmy goes in for an interview with Times Magazine, and her interviewer (and potential boss) immediately loves Kimmy's personal style. She also likes the fact Kimmy arrived 10 mins early to the interview. The interviewer then rates Kimmy high on all the measures of assessment (including references and suitability) even though she had the same references as other applicants who received a lower evaluation. What effect is this?

Select one of the following:

  • Gestalt effect

  • Attribution bias

  • self-enhancing bias

  • halo effect

Explanation

Question 7 of 49

1

Interviews are more reliable when done by a panel of judges? True/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 49

1

A study was done and found that those who made better first impressions in a pre-interview received higher ratings and more internship offers after the real interview. What does this demonstrate?

Select one of the following:

  • Interviews are objective and reliable

  • First impressions dictate a large say in if an applicant gets a job by interview or not

  • Interviews are a make-or-break component of the job application process.

Explanation

Question 9 of 49

1

Which has the HIGHEST correlation with academic performance? (aka. MOST reliable)

Select one of the following:

  • Credentials

  • Credentials and 1 hr interview

  • Credentials and objective test scores

  • Credentials, test scores and 2hr interview

Explanation

Question 10 of 49

1

Women benefit more than men from stronger handshakes. True/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 11 of 49

1

Which are well predicted by cognitive ability tests?

Select one of the following:

  • military training and high complexity job performance

  • low and medium job performance

  • military training and low complexity job perfromance

  • creativity and high complexity job performance

Explanation

Question 12 of 49

1

Are general factors of intelligence more predictive of job performance, or job-specific factors?

Select one of the following:

  • job specific

  • general (like g factor)

  • both are equally

Explanation

Question 13 of 49

1

Which test has disadvantages to visual-spatial impaired candidates and non-english speakers? (HINT: a test of cognitive ability)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Bennet mechanical comprehension test (BMCT)

  • Wonderlic personnel test revised (WPT-R)

  • Minnesoda clerical test (MCT)

Explanation

Question 14 of 49

1

Outdated, sexist and minority offensive. This describes the cons of which cognitive ability test?

Select one of the following:

  • Wonderlic personnel test revised

  • bennett mechanical comprehension test

  • minnesoda clerical test

  • Spearman's g-factor test

Explanation

Question 15 of 49

1

Which is not a test of cognitive ability used in personnel assessment?

Select one of the following:

  • Spearman personnel test IV (SPT-IV)

  • Wonderlic personnel test revised (WPT-R)

  • Bennet mechanical comprehension test (BMCT)

  • Minnesoda clerical test (MCT)

Explanation

Question 16 of 49

1

Which test has been validated for testing personality in military/hosptal/corporate setting?

Select one of the following:

  • NEO PI-R

  • Hogan personality inventory (HPI)

  • Inwald personality inventory

Explanation

Question 17 of 49

1

The Inwald personality inventory is used for which occupation?

Select one of the following:

  • Law enforcement

  • Military

  • educators (teachers, principles, professors)

  • Secretaries and clerks

Explanation

Question 18 of 49

1

The multphasic personality inventory and the Inwald personality inventory are both useful for which purpose?

Select one of the following:

  • predicting law enforcement job performance

  • predicting military job performance

  • predicting medical job performance

Explanation

Question 19 of 49

1

Hogan Personality inventory is based on the Big Five theory of personality. True/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 49

1

"Paper and pencil tests" for employment purposes are used to assess what according to the text?

Select one of the following:

  • dependability

  • biodata

  • Integrity

  • past employment history

Explanation

Question 21 of 49

1

Employee Polygraph Protection Act was signed by Regan in the USA, saying employers are allowed to screen their employees using a polygraph at any time in order to protect the employer from fraud. True/False?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 49

1

The In-basket test is an example of ________.

Select one of the following:

  • a test for layers competence

  • a measure of motor accuracy

  • a work sample/situational test

  • a neurospychological assessment of executive function

Explanation

Question 23 of 49

1

Preparing for work, amount of work, and seeking guidance are all assessment factors of which test?

Select one of the following:

  • Q-technique

  • Halo effect

  • Gestalt test

  • in-basket test

  • self-report

Explanation

Question 24 of 49

1

_________________ id defined by difficulties in conceptualizing and measuring performance constructs that are complex and fuzzy.

Select one of the following:

  • selection problem

  • construct problem

  • criterion problem

  • Predictive validity problem

Explanation

Question 25 of 49

1

What are problems with performance based measures?

Select one or more of the following:

  • rate of productivity may not be under worker's control

  • production counts may not be applicable to professions

  • may compromise quality

  • they are subjective

Explanation

Question 26 of 49

1

Peers give more _________ ratings that supervisors in the workplace.

Select one of the following:

  • tough

  • lenient

  • comprehensive

  • valid

Explanation

Question 27 of 49

1

In spite of their low ______, supervisor rating scales are the most widely used measure of job performance

Select one of the following:

  • validity

  • value

  • predictive ability

  • reliability

Explanation

Question 28 of 49

1

The graphic rating scale and critical incidents checklist (of desirable and undesirable incidents of behaviour) are a type of __________.

Select one of the following:

  • peer rating scale

  • supervisor rating scale

Explanation

Question 29 of 49

1

Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) is a ______________ referenced judgement measure used by supervisors in the workplace.

Select one of the following:

  • Construct

  • Criterion

  • vocation

  • job

  • performance

Explanation

Question 30 of 49

1

The difference between Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) and Behaviour observation scale (BOS) is that the BOS is scored on a scale from "almost always" to "almost never". True/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 31 of 49

1

Fill the blank space to complete the text.

contamination is said to exist when a criterion measure includes factors that are not measurably part of the job.

Explanation

Question 32 of 49

1

Types of criterion contamination are:

Select one or more of the following:

  • halo effect

  • opportunity bias

  • When characteristics of group effect individual performance

  • Knowledge of predictor bias (personal information gets in way)

Explanation

Question 33 of 49

1

The "ethnic penalty" refers to high unemployment rates among minority groups

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 34 of 49

1

What are the 3 needs that the textbook outlines as reasons people work?

Select one of the following:

  • survival, social connection and wealth

  • Survival and power, social connection and self-determination

  • wealth, power, success

  • fulfillment, goal pursuit and power

Explanation

Question 35 of 49

1

Parson's advocated making a career choice based on matching personal traits with job factors. Which factor(s) did he endorse as important for this?

Select one of the following:

  • Clear understanding of self

  • More than one of these is correct (but not all)

  • knowledge of requirements for success

  • true reasoning on the relationship between understanding of self and knowledge of job

  • all of these are correct

Explanation

Question 36 of 49

1

The theory of person-environment correspondence (PEC) states what?

Select one of the following:

  • that each of the major personality types have a corresponding job environment that fits them best

  • the best performance outcomes are a result of the perfect person-environment match

  • that personality traits tend to cluster into small number of job relevant patterns/personality types, and there is an environment best suited to each type

Explanation

Question 37 of 49

1

What are the RIASEC personality types based on Holland's Person-Environement Fit theory?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Realistic

  • Artistic

  • conservative

  • Enterprising

  • altruistic

  • Social

  • conventional

  • investigative

Explanation

Question 38 of 49

1

An Enterprising person (based on RIASEC) would be best suited for which career?

Select one of the following:

  • professor

  • sales

  • pharmacist

  • cook

  • reporter

Explanation

Question 39 of 49

1

Holland codes can be ______________ and ______________.

Select one of the following:

  • reliable and unreliable

  • useful and not useful

  • consistent and inconsistent

  • tertiary or secondary

  • None of these are true

Explanation

Question 40 of 49

1

The theory of person-environment correspondence (PEC) evolved form the theory of work adjustment (TWA) and has 6 crucial values: achievement altruism, autonomy, comfort, safety and status

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 41 of 49

1

celerity, pace and endurace are assessed along a continuum for which test?

Select one of the following:

  • TWA

  • PEC

  • Both

Explanation

Question 42 of 49

1

How many stages does Super's stage theory of career development have?

Select one of the following:

  • 2

  • 5

  • 10

  • 6

Explanation

Question 43 of 49

1

Which stage of Super's model starts around 25-30 and involves trial stabilization sub-phases?

Select one of the following:

  • Growth

  • Exploration

  • establishment

  • maintenance

  • decline

Explanation

Question 44 of 49

1

What is NOT one of the 4 premises of the social, cognitive approach of Happenstance learning theory (HLT)

Select one or more of the following:

  • engage in exploration to generate beneficial unplanned events

  • goal of career counseling is to help client learn to take better actions

  • success of counseling is assessed by client's accomplishments outside sessions

  • assessment's stimulate learning process

  • the end goal is to find a good person-environment fit

Explanation

Question 45 of 49

1

O*NET is a career development tool for career exploration sponsored by US department of labor and is open for anyone around the world to use online. true/false?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 46 of 49

1

Which career assessment inventory measures attitudes and beliefs that might block career development (self-limiting beliefs)?

Select one of the following:

  • Strong interest inventory revised (SII-R)

  • Career beliefs inventory (CBI)

  • Vocational preference inventory (VPI)

  • Campbell interest and skill survey (CISS)

Explanation

Question 47 of 49

1

Jim is in highschool and completes an internet assessment to see which occupation might suit his interests. Which assessment was this likely to be?

Select one of the following:

  • Vocational preference inventory (VPI)

  • Strong interest inventory revised (SII-R)

  • self-directed search

Explanation

Question 48 of 49

1

the _____________________ is based on the RIASEC model of personality.

Select one of the following:

  • NEO PI-R

  • Strong interest inventory revised

  • vocational preference inventory

  • None of these

  • Self-directed search

  • two of these

Explanation

Question 49 of 49

1

The campbell interest and skill survey (CISS) has 7 orientations: influencing, organizing, helping, creating, analyzing, producing and adventuring. True/False?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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