Industrial psychology test

Resume whitening is the process of.

Eliminating racial cues from your resumé

Using persuasive techniques to sell customers makeup with the goal of selling more makeup is a measure of a Sephora associate's...

Sales ability

Which of the following is true about situational judgment tests?

Scores from situational judgment tests have incremental validity above personality tests and intelligence tests

Modern human resources practices use personality tests to - candidates.

Screen in

Which of the following is NOT a domain of emotional intelligence?

Self compassion

What trait allows individuals to "hide" their personality at work?

Self monitoring

Test questions that ask emplovees to choose a hypothetical response to an example scenario are examples of...

Situational judgment tests

Speaking a foreign language is an example of a ....

Skill

A test that most participants do not finish within a set amount of time is likely a...

Speed test

A job analvsis that is focused on individuals characteristics is called...

Worker-oriented job analysis

Understand why job performance is defined as behavior.

discrete behavioral episodes that make a measurable contribution to goal achievement.

Define KSAO

knowledge, skills, ability, and other characteristics

Which of the following is NOI a Big 5 personality factor?

Neurotypicality

Be able to identify examples of job performance that are job-related behaviors

- sales performance - absenteeism - supervisor ratings - salary - promotion - turnover - measured in terms of each individuals proficiency

Which of the following is a differential psychologist most likely to believe?

An employee's personality has the greatest influence on job performance.

A collection of assessment procedures administered by a group of people is called a(n)........

Assessment center

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of assessment centers?

Assessment is done by an individual

"Describe a time when you managed a crisis at work," is an example of what type of interview question?

Behavioral

The job analysis approach focused on asking SMEs to identify critical aspects of behavior that led to a work failure is...

Critical incidents

Which of the following assessments has the largest subgroup differences?

Cognitive ability test

Define cognitive ability, identify when cognitive ability is a stronger or weaker predictor of job performance

Cognitive ability: the Capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems - also known As mental ability

......... is an example of process, and is.......... an example of content.

Cognitive ability; situational judgment test

_ ...............only have meaning in the context of organizational goals.

Competencies

The process that identifies the characteristics desired across all individuals and jobs within an organization and considers the strategic goals of the organization is called...

Competency modeling

A personality test item asking a respondent to indicate the extent to which they, "Like order.," most likely measures.

Conscientiousness

Which of the Big 5 personality characteristics is most strongly linked with job performance?

Conscientiousness

Which of the following is NOT a potential use of job analvsis information?

Counterproductive work behavior

A situation when an observed criterion is missing information that is part of the behavior one is trying to measure is called.....

Criterion deficiency

Performance behaviors that are not seen by a supervisor are an example of.

Criterion deficiency

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 required that employers provide what information if a test reduced employment opportunities for protected subgroups?

Evidence of validity

........ _ is a value judgment about actions or decisions based on test scores.

Fairness

Clemson is considering requiring all students to take a musical sight-reading test for admission, but high school students disagree with the policy because it doesn't relate to academics. This is an example of

Fairness

Which of the following assessments are associated with substantial adverse impact?

GPA

Which of the following is true about using college GPA in employee selection?

GPA is more valid for job candidates closer to college graduation

Which of the following is NOT an example of an individual difference?

Heart rate

The value in terms of increased validity of adding a particular predictor to an existing selection system is called

Incremental validity

Which of the following statements about individual differences is true?

Individual differences are stable over time

................was an American psychologist who developed the concept of a "mental test."

James McKeen cattell

Which of the following is true about job analysis?

Job analysis is a procedure for understanding attributes necessary to perform a job

The predictive validity of cognitive ability increases as increase(s).

Job complexity

According to Campbell's model, understanding what is required to perform a task, knowing how to perform a task, and motivation are...

Job performance behaviors

Supervisor ratings are an example of a(n)..................... performance measure.

Judgmental

Which of the following is NOT captured in the NASA Task Load Index?

Mental demand

The ................. is a collection of databases focused on worker-oriented and task- or job-oriented characteristics.

O NET

Of the following, which is the most common method for conducting a job analysis?

Observation

Define the Big 5 personality traits and characterize the relationships between these traits and job performance

Openness (to experience), Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (emotional instability)

Define each of the Big 5 traits (OCEAN)

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism

Offering to help a coworker who is working on a difficult task is an example of a(n).

Organizational citizenship behavior

Defending your company after a negative article comes out about the company in your local newspaper is an example of which dimension of contextual performance?

Organizational support

A driving test where an individual drives a car with an instructor in the passenger seat is an example of a...

Performance test

What is the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior?

They are separate constructs

Which of the following best predicts the "will do" aspects of job performance?

Personality

Which of the following assessments has the lowest subgroup differences?

Personality test

The applicant for a firefighter position requires applicants to do 50 pushups in under five minutes. What type of test is this?

Physical fitness test

One potential downside of employee performance monitoring is concern about employee

Privacy rights

is the practice of measuring a characteristic and placing it on a scale or metric.

Psychometrics

An interviewer who has a set list of questions and a rating system for interviewing job candidates is likely using a(n)......... approach.

Structured interview

As ............ increases. the relationship between cognitive ability and performance strengthens

Task complexity

Teaching students is an example of.

Task performance

An employee's behaviors on a randomly chosen day of work is likely an indicator of their...

Typical performance

Which of the following approaches to employee interviews would lead to the lowest validity?

Unstructured interview with personality-based questions

What is the best approach for reducing bias in interviews?

Use a panel of interviewers

Which of the following is NOI a use of job analysis information for the HR function?

• Designing a think-aloud protocol