Test Flashcards
Coaching is:
A practical, goal-focused form of personal, one-on-one learning
In the behavioural approach to leadership, consideration is also referred to as…
Interpersonal orientation
Culture affects performance evaluations in all of the following ways except:
Collective cultures have lower reliability on performance evaluations
Measures of general mental ability do not always guarantee success on the job because…
Some jobs also require physical strength and interpersonal skills
Observational design and survey design are two types of…
non-experiment
Leading with integrity and genuineness and not projecting an artificial persona refers to…
authentic leadership
Tests used to eliminate candidates who are clearly unsuitable for employment are referred to as…
screen out tests
A cognitive ability test that uses 50 items to assess verbal, numerical, and spatial abilities is known as the
Wonderlic Personnel Test
Dr, Duran, an I-O psychologist found that as job satisfaction increases, employee absenteeism decreases. This is an example of a _ relationship.
Negative
The time and motion studies involved all of the following except:
Investigating employee attitudes about the length of the workweek
Questionnaires that assess an individual’s organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) assess:
altruism and generalized compliance
Which approach attempts to show that leaders possess certain characteristics that non-leaders do not?
trait
Tests that ask questions directly about the candidate’s past honesty behaviour as well as attitudes towards various behaviours, such as employee theft, can be best described as:
Overt integrity tests
Melanie takes a test in her Industrial-Organizational class. Her score will most reflect her:
Declarative knowledge
Training needs analysis includes all of the following except:
motivational analysis
Professor Wee hypothesizes that a person’s intelligence will determine how well the person will perform on the job, In this example, intelligence is the:
Predictor
The process used by I-O psychologists to develop an understanding of a job by identifying the duties of the job and the KSAOs required to perform the job is called a:
Job analysis
in which type of training environment would an experienced trainee with high ability most likely thrive?
A shorter, less structured program
Mental ability refers to a person’s
capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems
A university student wh crams fr a test the night before is using _
massed practise
According to the text, research designs in I-O psychology can be broken down into three basic types:
experimental, quasi-experimental, non experimental
Which of the following types of performance ratings is least likely to provide useful information when measuring performance?
trait
The ‘in-basket’ technique is a type of
assessment centre method
The systematic acquisition of skills, concepts, or attitudes, that result in improved performance is called
training
Cameron is asked during an interview to explain how she would handle a particular situation while on the job. Cameron is most likely taking part in a
Situational interview
The number of patients a medical intern treated in one day would be measured by _ measures.
Objective
The systematic collection of information that can be used to make effective training decision is called:
Training evaluation
The acronym “KSAO” stands for
Knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics
According to the textbook, at least part of the way to prevent counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) is in:
selection
The main distinction between the Army Alpha and the Army Beta is…
the Army Alpha was administered to literate recruits, while the Army Beta was administered to illiterate recruits
Critical incidents are…
behaviours in a particular job that result in either success or failure
All of the following are dimensions of Hofstede’s theory of culture except
Inferior versus superior
Which type of leadership has a tendency to arise after a crisis or emergency situation?
charismatic
According to the textbook, when people were asked the question “If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for the rest of your life, would you continue to work or stop working?” a majority of people reported that
they would continue working
When a rater avoid choosing an extreme score, _ error may occur
central tendency
Which theory states that subordinates are categorized into either “in-groups” or “out-groups”?
LMX theory
Understanding how to perform a task is called
procedural knowledge
