Exam Five Flashcards
industrial testing
- employee selection
2. employee performance appraisal
employee selection 5 stages
- job analysis
- choice of tests
- administration of tests
- collection of criterion data
- analysis of data
useful tests for employee selection
- the DAT (differential aptitude test battery)
- GATB (general aptitude test battery)
- wonderlic
- Bennett mechanical test
wonderlic
group test of general mental ability
DAT
measures grades 7-12 and some adults ability to reason generally and be successful
Bennett mechanical test
applications and hands on knowledge of equipment
GATB
work related cognitive test
personal selection for employee selection
- biodata
- interview
- ability tests
- personality tests
- work sample
- situational exercise
- in basket tests
biodata
what do they like to do, what is their biology. basically like?
work sample
blue collar work related tests, see someone actually doing this stuff
situational exercise
how do you deal with this situation
in basket test
set up a scenario and look at how the interviewie handles it
personal appraisal
- performance measures: productivity
- personal data: absenteeism
- peer ratings
- supervisor ratings: BARS
BARS
behaviorally anchored rating scale
career counseling
- strong interest inventory(what they like)
2. Campbell interest (what are you interested in so we can find good jobs for you)
clinical testing
- how important are the issues
- answering the referral question
- adds specific information
- testing cost, time, and need
errors to avoid in clinical testing
- schematization (when you only center on one or two characteristics of a person)
- information overload (too much information to deal with)
- insufficient evidence (not enough information to make a conclusion)
- over interpretation (deeper interpretation for things that are not actually there)
- lack of external validation (there is no evidence of the thing that the person is saying happened)
- lack of integration (you have information but you don’t integrate it to present the whole picture of the person)
- overpathologizing (be careful not to do this even if they seem “crazy”, focus on strengths)
how to do clinical interpretation
- pattern analysis (look for patterns in behavior)
- report writing: case of Bradley (a case study)
- Barnum effect (don’t write too generally, make statements specific about the person)
- full -scale assessment report
- meehl’s book: clinical vs statistical prediction
- mini-mental status exam (
information to ask
- remote memory
- ability to comprehend
- reading background
comprehension
- practical judgment
2. correct social actions
arithmetic
- basic reasoning
2. symbol facility
similarities
- capacity for associative thinking
- interests and reading patterns
- select verbal ability
vocabulary
- learning ability
- fund of information
- richness of ideas
- quality of language
digit span
- memory span
block design
- figure relations
2. figural selection
picture arrangement
- evaluation
- social relations
- visual comprehension
- social alertness
advantages of clinical method
- case histories
- direct observations
- how they handle frustration
- utilize and synthesize diverse data
- systematic intervieiwng
- depends on professional training, ability, personality and experience
Neurological testing
- bender-gestalt visual motor test
- luria-nebraska
- hosted-retain
- NAB: neuropsychological assessment battery
Forensic testing
- Hare’s PCL-R
2. psychopathy checklist
review topics
- employee selection procedures
- neurological tests
- clinical approach/interpretation of clinical approach (how we can use the wechleser test pattern analysis, scoring on subtests, observation)
- performance appraisel
- forensic psychological test
- advantages of clinical approach
- hare psychopathy checklist
personality
- it Is largely unconscious and hidden
- organized and consistent pattern of unique traits
- set of learned behaviors
- temperaments and emotionality-type
- organized set of defense mechanisms
- individual dispositional differences
is personality the same as character
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hippocrates 5th century
four humors
four humors
- yellow bile
- black bile
- blood
- phlegm
galen personalities
- choleric
- meloncholy
- sanguine
- phlegmatic
gall
phrenology 37 temperaments
kretchmer
thought he could tell if a person had schizophrenia or manic-depressive based on body type
- schizophrenic: elongated physique
- manic depressive: rounded and soft
- introverted: tall and slender
- extraverted: heavy and rotund
Sheldon
body type and personality pattern
- ectomorphic(extroverted)
- mesomorphic (introverted)
- endomorphic
Sheldon said he could make correlations based on peoples body types
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jung-eysneck-tempermens
- unstable
- stable
- introverted
- extroverted
unstable, extrovert
choleric
instable introvert
melancholy
stable introvert
phlegmatic
stable extrovert
sanguin
trait factor-big five Neo inventory
- ocean
- open to experience
- conscientious
- extroverted
- agreeable
- neurotic
psychoanalytic theory
- structure of the mind
2. defense mechanisms
freud stages of personality development
- oral
- anal
- phalic
- latent
- genital
millon’s normal personality patterns
- forceful
- confident
- sociable
- cooperative
- sensitive
- respectful
- inhibited
mildly severe foundation
- antisocial
- narcissistic
- schizotypal
- histrionic
- dependent
- passive-aggressive
- compulsive
- avoidant
- schizoid
personality definition gordon allport
- is the dynamic arrangement in the individual of those psychophysical systems which determine his unique adaptation to his environment
2.
physophysical
emotional functioning
Personality projectiles
- Rotter incomplete sentences
- Rorschach
- TAT
- H-T-P
what is trait
relative enduring way in which a person differs from another
4 methods of controlling peoples response
- cooperation
- structure of the task
- use scales
- look for inconsistencies
disadvantages of inventories
- social desirability
- dissimulation (untruthfully response)
- influenced by mood swings/situation
- test dependent on items asked
advantages of inventories
- clear scoring directions
- no special training to administer
- group administration
- good reliability and validity
projective test hypothesis
advantage for projective technique s that a person gets unprotected motivations and desires that other tests could not get
advantages of projective testing
- rapport
- less susceptibility for faking
- no right or wrong answers
disadvantages of projective test
- what is an abnormal response
- verbal ability required
- lack of objective scoring
- normative data missing
- reliability and validity issues
