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