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Exam Five Flashcards

1
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industrial testing

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  1. employee selection

2. employee performance appraisal

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employee selection 5 stages

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  1. job analysis
  2. choice of tests
  3. administration of tests
  4. collection of criterion data
  5. analysis of data
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useful tests for employee selection

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  1. the DAT (differential aptitude test battery)
  2. GATB (general aptitude test battery)
  3. wonderlic
  4. Bennett mechanical test
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wonderlic

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group test of general mental ability

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DAT

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measures grades 7-12 and some adults ability to reason generally and be successful

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Bennett mechanical test

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applications and hands on knowledge of equipment

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GATB

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work related cognitive test

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personal selection for employee selection

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  1. biodata
  2. interview
  3. ability tests
  4. personality tests
  5. work sample
  6. situational exercise
  7. in basket tests
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biodata

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what do they like to do, what is their biology. basically like?

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work sample

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blue collar work related tests, see someone actually doing this stuff

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situational exercise

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how do you deal with this situation

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in basket test

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set up a scenario and look at how the interviewie handles it

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personal appraisal

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  1. performance measures: productivity
  2. personal data: absenteeism
  3. peer ratings
  4. supervisor ratings: BARS
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BARS

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behaviorally anchored rating scale

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career counseling

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  1. strong interest inventory(what they like)

2. Campbell interest (what are you interested in so we can find good jobs for you)

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clinical testing

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  1. how important are the issues
  2. answering the referral question
  3. adds specific information
  4. testing cost, time, and need
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errors to avoid in clinical testing

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  1. schematization (when you only center on one or two characteristics of a person)
  2. information overload (too much information to deal with)
  3. insufficient evidence (not enough information to make a conclusion)
  4. over interpretation (deeper interpretation for things that are not actually there)
  5. lack of external validation (there is no evidence of the thing that the person is saying happened)
  6. lack of integration (you have information but you don’t integrate it to present the whole picture of the person)
  7. overpathologizing (be careful not to do this even if they seem “crazy”, focus on strengths)
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how to do clinical interpretation

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  1. pattern analysis (look for patterns in behavior)
  2. report writing: case of Bradley (a case study)
  3. Barnum effect (don’t write too generally, make statements specific about the person)
  4. full -scale assessment report
  5. meehl’s book: clinical vs statistical prediction
  6. mini-mental status exam (
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information to ask

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  1. remote memory
  2. ability to comprehend
  3. reading background
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comprehension

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  1. practical judgment

2. correct social actions

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arithmetic

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  1. basic reasoning

2. symbol facility

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22
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similarities

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  1. capacity for associative thinking
  2. interests and reading patterns
  3. select verbal ability
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vocabulary

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  1. learning ability
  2. fund of information
  3. richness of ideas
  4. quality of language
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digit span

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  1. memory span
25
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block design

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  1. figure relations

2. figural selection

26
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picture arrangement

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  1. evaluation
  2. social relations
  3. visual comprehension
  4. social alertness
27
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advantages of clinical method

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  1. case histories
  2. direct observations
  3. how they handle frustration
  4. utilize and synthesize diverse data
  5. systematic intervieiwng
  6. depends on professional training, ability, personality and experience
28
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Neurological testing

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  1. bender-gestalt visual motor test
  2. luria-nebraska
  3. hosted-retain
  4. NAB: neuropsychological assessment battery
29
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Forensic testing

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  1. Hare’s PCL-R

2. psychopathy checklist

30
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review topics

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  1. employee selection procedures
  2. neurological tests
  3. clinical approach/interpretation of clinical approach (how we can use the wechleser test pattern analysis, scoring on subtests, observation)
  4. performance appraisel
  5. forensic psychological test
  6. advantages of clinical approach
  7. hare psychopathy checklist
31
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personality

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  1. it Is largely unconscious and hidden
  2. organized and consistent pattern of unique traits
  3. set of learned behaviors
  4. temperaments and emotionality-type
  5. organized set of defense mechanisms
  6. individual dispositional differences
32
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is personality the same as character

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?

33
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hippocrates 5th century

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four humors

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four humors

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  1. yellow bile
  2. black bile
  3. blood
  4. phlegm
35
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galen personalities

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  1. choleric
  2. meloncholy
  3. sanguine
  4. phlegmatic
36
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gall

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phrenology 37 temperaments

37
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kretchmer

thought he could tell if a person had schizophrenia or manic-depressive based on body type

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  1. schizophrenic: elongated physique
  2. manic depressive: rounded and soft
  3. introverted: tall and slender
  4. extraverted: heavy and rotund
38
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Sheldon

body type and personality pattern

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  1. ectomorphic(extroverted)
  2. mesomorphic (introverted)
  3. endomorphic
39
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Sheldon said he could make correlations based on peoples body types

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40
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jung-eysneck-tempermens

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  1. unstable
  2. stable
  3. introverted
  4. extroverted
41
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unstable, extrovert

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choleric

42
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instable introvert

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melancholy

43
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stable introvert

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phlegmatic

44
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stable extrovert

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sanguin

45
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trait factor-big five Neo inventory

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  1. ocean
  2. open to experience
  3. conscientious
  4. extroverted
  5. agreeable
  6. neurotic
46
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psychoanalytic theory

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  1. structure of the mind

2. defense mechanisms

47
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freud stages of personality development

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  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phalic
  4. latent
  5. genital
48
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millon’s normal personality patterns

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  1. forceful
  2. confident
  3. sociable
  4. cooperative
  5. sensitive
  6. respectful
  7. inhibited
49
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mildly severe foundation

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  1. antisocial
  2. narcissistic
  3. schizotypal
  4. histrionic
  5. dependent
  6. passive-aggressive
  7. compulsive
  8. avoidant
  9. schizoid
50
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personality definition gordon allport

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  1. is the dynamic arrangement in the individual of those psychophysical systems which determine his unique adaptation to his environment
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51
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physophysical

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emotional functioning

52
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Personality projectiles

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  1. Rotter incomplete sentences
  2. Rorschach
  3. TAT
  4. H-T-P
53
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what is trait

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relative enduring way in which a person differs from another

54
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4 methods of controlling peoples response

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  1. cooperation
  2. structure of the task
  3. use scales
  4. look for inconsistencies
55
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disadvantages of inventories

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  1. social desirability
  2. dissimulation (untruthfully response)
  3. influenced by mood swings/situation
  4. test dependent on items asked
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advantages of inventories

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  1. clear scoring directions
  2. no special training to administer
  3. group administration
  4. good reliability and validity
57
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projective test hypothesis

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advantage for projective technique s that a person gets unprotected motivations and desires that other tests could not get

58
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advantages of projective testing

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  1. rapport
  2. less susceptibility for faking
  3. no right or wrong answers
59
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disadvantages of projective test

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  1. what is an abnormal response
  2. verbal ability required
  3. lack of objective scoring
  4. normative data missing
  5. reliability and validity issues

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