Ch 3

Question 1

Individual differences

Answer 1

Dissimilarities between or among two or more people

Question 2

Mental tests

Answer 2

Instrument designed to measure s subjects ability to reason, plan, and solve problems: an intelligence test

Question 3

Differential psychology

Answer 3

Scientific study of differences between or among two or more people

Question 4

Intelligence

Answer 4

The ability to learn and adapt to any environment; often used to refer to general intellectual capacity, as opposed to cognitive ability or mental ability, which often refer to more specific abilities such as memory or reasoning

Question 5

Mental abilities

Answer 5

Capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems: cognitive ability

Question 6

Metric

Answer 6

Standard of measurement

Question 7

Psychometric

Answer 7

Practice of measuring a characteristic such as mental ability, placing it on a scale or metric

Question 8

Intelligence test

Answer 8

Instrument designed to measure the ability to reason, learn, and solve problems

Question 9

Psychometrician

Answer 9

Psychologist trained in measuring characteristic such as mental ability

Question 10

General mental ability

Answer 10

Nonspecific capacity to reason, learn, and solve problems in any of a wide variety of of ways and circumstances

Question 11

G-ocentric model

Answer 11

Tendency to understand and predict the behavior of workers simply by examining g

Question 12

Physical abilities

Answer 12

Bodily powers such as muscular strength, flexibility, and stamina

Question 13

Personality

Answer 13

Individuals behavioral and emotional characteristics, generally found to be stable over time and in a variety of circumstances; and individuals habitual way of responding

Question 14

Interests

Answer 14

Preferences or likings for broad ranges of activities

Question 15

Knowledge

Answer 15

A collection of specific and inter-related facts and information about a particular topical area

Question 16

Emotion

Answer 16

And affect were feeling, often experienced and displayed in reaction to an event for thought and accompanied by physiological changes in various systems of the body

Question 17

Cognitive ability tests

Answer 17

A test that allows individuals to demonstrate what they know, perceive, and remember, understand, or can work with mentally; includes problem identification, problem-solving tasks, perceptual skills, the development or evaluation of ideas, and remembering what one has learned through general experience or specific training

Question 18

Cognitive test battery

Answer 18

Collection of test that assess a variety of cognitive aptitudes or abilities; often called multiple aptitude test batteries

Question 19

Knowledge test

Answer 19

A test that assesses the extent to which individuals understand course or training materials; also administered for licensing certification purposes

Question 20

Psychomotor abilities

Answer 20

Physical functions of movement associated with coordination, dexterity, and reaction time; also called motor or sensory motor abilities

Question 21

Screen out test

Answer 21

The test used to illuminate candidates who are clearly unsuitable for employment; tests of psychopathology are examples of screen out test in the employment setting

Question 22

Screen in test

Answer 22

A test used to add information about the positive attributes of a candidate that might predict outstanding performance; test of normal personality are examples of screen and tests in the employment setting

Question 23

Self presentation

Answer 23

A persons public face or game face

Question 24

Overt integrity test

Answer 24

A test asks questions directly about past honesty behavior (stealing) as well as attitudes toward various behaviors such as employee theft

Question 25

Personality based integrity test

Answer 25

It test that infers honesty and integrity from questions dealing with Broad constructs such as conscientiousness, reliability, and social responsibility and awareness

Question 26

Emotional intelligence

Answer 26

A proposed kind of intelligence focused on peoples awareness of their own and others’ emotions

Question 27

Emotional intelligence quotient

Answer 27

Parallels the notion of intelligence quotient, a score on that test of emotional intelligence

Question 28

Individual assessment

Answer 28

Situation in which only one candidate or a very few is assessed on many different attributes

Question 29

Structured interview

Answer 29

Assessment procedure that consist of very specific questions asked of each candidate, includes tightly crafted scoring team is with detailed outlines for the interview with respect to assigning ratings or scores based on interview performance

Question 30

Situational interview

Answer 30

An assessment procedure in which the interviewee is asked to describe in specific and behavioral detail how he or she would respond to a hypothetical situation

Question 31

Unstructured interview

Answer 31

Interview format that includes questions that may ferry by candidate and that allows the candidate to answer in any form he or she prefers

Question 32

Assessment center

Answer 32

Collection of procedures for evaluation that is administered to groups of individuals, assessments are typically performed by multiple assessors

Question 33

Work sample test

Answer 33

Assessment procedure that measures job skills by taking samples of behavior under realistic job like conditions

Question 34

Situational judgement test

Answer 34

Commonly a paper and pencil test that presents the candidate with a written scenario and asks the candidate to choose the best response from a series of alternatives

Question 35

Why does personality matter

Answer 35

It has criterion related validity, it is predictive, predicts different criteria from other individual differences, provides incremental prediction over other individual differences

Question 36

What is an example of an empirically derived personality development measure

Answer 36

Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

Question 37

What is an example of theoretically derived personality measurement

Answer 37

Myers Briggs type inventory

Question 38

What are the 5 factors model and most important one

Answer 38

Conscientiousness 
Agreeableness 
Neuroticism 
Openness to experience 
Extraversion

Question 39

Cognitive ability test

Answer 39

A test that allows individuals to demonstrate what they know, perceive, remember, understand, or can work with mentally; includes problem identification, problem-solving tasks, perceptual skills, the development or evaluation of ideas, and remembering what one has learned general experience or specific training