Unit 1 Psychology Review

a strengths-based selection system

After discovering that their company's best software developers are highly analytical, personnel psychologists focused their employment ads for additional software developers less on applicants' experience and more on their ability to engage in logical problem solving. This best illustrates their commitment to

career

Andrea views her work as primarily an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder in pursuit of increasingly better positions. Andrea apparently views her work as a

positive

As discussed in lecture, a study given between people who wear flip flops and temperature found that when temperature rises there is an increase in people who wear flip flops, this would be considered a ______________ relationship

others can replicate our study

As discussed in lecture, operational definitions are important so that

the double-blind procedure

Both the researchers and the participants in a memory study are ignorant about which participants have actually received a potentially memory-enhancing drug and which have received a placebo. This investigation involves the use of

the difference between the samples is large

Differences between two sample averages are most likely to be statistically significant if

not engaged

Employees who put in work time but invest little passion or energy in their work are described as

strengths-based selection

Hiring job applicants who have the qualities best suited for success in the job for which they are applying illustrates

Plato

In lecture Dr Henderson spoke about the early foundations of psychology, ________ was the person that believed in Nativism

Plato is to Aristotle

In the context of debates over the origins of psychological traits, nature is to nurture as

nature; nurture

Innate ability is to learned skill as ________ is to ________.

nature and nurture

Plato's assumption that we inherit character traits and intelligence is most directly relevant to the controversy regarding

evolutionary

Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference promoted the survival of our ancestors' genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the ________ perspective.

performance appraisal

Scales and checklists on which supervisors indicate the extent to which a worker is productive, follows correct procedures, and attends to customers' needs are designed primarily for the purpose of improving

match people to vocations with a good person-environment fit

The main goal of a career counseling science is to

stating implementation intentions.

The on-time completion of major work projects is most clearly facilitated by

gender difference

The risk of being color deficient is greater for men than for women. This best illustrates an important

develop general principles that help explain behavior

The simplified reality of laboratory experiments is most helpful in enabling psychologists to

biology

The young science of psychology developed from the more established fields of philosophy and

increasingly better employment positions

Those who view their work as a career are especially likely to be concerned about opportunities for

job

Those who view their work as a necessary but personally unfulfilling way to make money are said to view work as a