Lesson 7

Question 1

IQ

Answer 1

Intellectual quotien, the standard IQ reflect the overall performance of a person in comparison to a sample of people representative of the
general population

Question 2

Positive manifold

Answer 2

The fact that scores on different intelligence tests tend to be correlated
with each other

Question 3

Fluid intelligence

Answer 3

Refers to mental operations that an individual uses when faced with a novel task that cannot be performed automatically

Question 4

Quantitative intelligence

Answer 4

The ability to use quantitative information and manipulate numeric symbols

Question 5

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 5

Breadth and depth of a person’s acquired knowledge of a culture and the effective application of this knowledge

Question 6

Short-term memory

Answer 6

The ability to apprehend and hold information in immediate awareness and then use it within a few seconds

Question 7

Visual processing

Answer 7

The ability to generate, perceive, analyze, synthesize, store, retriev, manipulate, transform and think with visual patterns and stimuli

Question 8

Long-term storage and

retrieval

Answer 8

The ability to store information in and fluently retrive now or previously acquired information from long-term memory

Question 9

Processing speed

Answer 9

The ability to fluently and automatically perform cognitive tasks, especially when under pressure to maintain focused attention and
concentration

Question 10

Hypothesis of

situational specificity

Answer 10

Hypothesis that intelligence is not a relevant predictor of performance for all the occupations

Question 11

Graphology

Answer 11

The analysis of the physical characteristics and patterns of handwriting purporting to be able to identify the writer, indicating psychological state at the time of writing, or evaluating personality characteristics

Question 12

Unstructured interviews

Answer 12

Type of selection interviews in which the interviewer has no constraints in terms of questions that have to be asked and of method of analyzing the responses of the candidates

Question 13

Structured interviews

Answer 13

Type of selection interviews in which the questions are constrained as well as the method to analyze the responses of the candidates

Question 14

Work sample tests

Answer 14

Hands-on simulations of part or all of the work that applicants must perform

Question 15

Emotional intelligence

Answer 15

The ability to detect and to manage emotional cues and information

Question 16

Perceiving Emotions

Answer 16

The ability to perceive emotions in oneself and others as well as in objects, art, stories, music, and other stimuli.

Question 17

Understanding

Emotions

Answer 17

The ability to understand emotional information, to understand how emotions combine and progress through relationship transitions, and to appreciate such emotional meanings

Question 18

Managing Emotions

Answer 18

The ability to control one’s own emotions and to help others in doing so