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