Javier is an undergraduate Psychology student who is interested in pursuing graduate school. He reaches out to the Psi-Chi advisor, Dr. J, an I/O Psychologist, to explain the differences among sub-fields. She explains that I/O Psychology is

unique

from other Psychology sub-disciplines because:

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Students wishing to enter I/O graduate programs tend to need a good GPA

People graduating from I/O Psychology can go into government or academic jobs

It is founded on the scientist-practitioner model

Students interested in I/O graduate programs should become members of national psychological organizations

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Arianna is selected as a subject matter expert for a job analysis, she is to do a KSA criticality survey. Her role can best be described as:

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Determine a list of possible KSAOs that should be considered for the job analysis

Rate the tasks in terms of their actual criticality for the job

Identify and rate the degree to which the previously identified KSAOs are actually important for the job

Identify the tasks that should be considered for the job analysis

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Leo is conducting a job analysis for the role of a fairly standard job – a customer service representative. Which of the following methods would be appropriate, effective, and save some time (practical).

Group of answer choices

Quit his job. Why do a job analysis anyway???

Conduct 30 SME interviews

Perform 30 “ride-alongs”

Distribute the PAQ to 30 job incumbents

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For this job analysis data collection method, it is essential that a large number of employees participate.

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survey

Interview

Archival

Ride along

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Grit seems to be the best indicator of job performance in highly competitive jobs, this means that if you use this indicator for a job that requires Grit, you have:

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Criterion relevance

Criterion efficacy

Criterion inclusion

Criterion contamination

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Eleanor needs to perform a job analysis so that she can select, train, and develop performance appraisal tools for construction workers. Who of the following is the better subject matter expert to speak with?

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Leonardo Dicaprio

job analyst

construction company owner

field supervisor

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Sadly, Lupin had to go. The hiring manager for the new Defense Against Dark Arts position at Hogwarts needs to develop an effective task statement. Which of the following is a properly formulated task statement that I can put in my job description (note you don’t need to know anything about Hogwarts to answer this correctly):

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Practically engage students in the classroom to improve their skills in defending against the dark arts

Knowledge of the history of the defense against dark arts

Demonstrate advanced and skilled defense tactics against dark creatures of every shape and size

Ability to meet a grim fate in 1 year

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The following is an item for a job analysis:

A customer is really angry that their flight is delayed! As a negative response, the gate agent would cut the customer off, and tell the person there is nothing they can do, goodbye! A positive response would be to listen and try to understand where they person is coming from, and then trying to solve the problem in a way that works for both the customer and is within the scope of what the gate agent can do.

What is this an example of?

Group of answer choices

KSAO Analysis

Competency Modeling

Task Criticality Survey

Critical Incidents Technique

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Job analysis is a legally defensible way to

Group of answer choices

To run global business practices

Develop effective selection, training, and performance appraisal systems

Conduct unethical business

To demonstrate external equity

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A hiring committee is charged with hiring a new leader, and they conclude that the criteria for the job should be that the new hire is a exceptional leader. Unfortunately, this is a remarkably vague criteria that gets at the essence of the job, but doesn’t quite get at all the constructs that make up a great leadership. This is an example of a:

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Conceptual criteria

Actual criteria

Job criteria

Task criteria

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Remy has designed a leadership training that focuses on leadership support, leadership vision, and leadership effectiveness. Remy wants as much information as possible about the trainee performance on each dimension following the training, which type of criteria should Remy use?

Group of answer choices

Actual Criteria

Composite criteria

Multiple criteria

Job Criteria

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Rafael is being evaluated based on the number of minutes he spends with each customer. What type of evaluation is being used?

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Personality measures

Subjective measures

Relative measures

Objective measures

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Mercedes wants only the very best car sales employees. To evaluate performance, employees will be categorized into specific groups based on their level of performance (e.g., Top, Good, Barely, and Cut, where 25% of employees will be put in each category). This is an example of:

Group of answer choices

Behavioral anchoring scale

Relative ranking

Force distribution

Graphic rating scale

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Alex is a nurse, and he has to rate the new employees as part of their performance appraisal. On the first day, Nurse Ratched WOWed him with her expertise and skill. Despite her many unsavory deeds over the years, Alex feels Nurse Ratched can do no wrong and rates her as the top employee.

This is an example of:

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Similarity effect

Contrast error

Halo effect

Leniency effect

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Dr. Gabriella sees all of her employees as great performers, even if they have some faults! Her performance appraisal ratings of her employees likely suffer from

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Contrast error

Leniency error

Halo effect

Similarity

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A company is hiring 2 car salespeople. We know extraversion is key. Which selection battery would be the most ideal (consider practicality, efficiency and covering conceptual criteria appropriately)?

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Two different measures of extraversion and a work samples test

One measure of extraversion and a structured interview assessing interpersonal skills

One measure of extraversion and a work samples test

Two different measures of extraversion and a structured interview assessing interpersonal skills

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Which of the following is not a selection method

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Structured Interview

Work Samples

Assessment Center

Interpersonal skills

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Congrats – you’ve recruited 60 qualified applicants for the open pre-school director position! Assuming the following selection battery is chosen for the selection process, which predictor should be done last in the process? Hint, think about practicality and how long it might take 🙂

Group of answer choices

Personality Tests

Work Samples

Resume

SJT

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Which of the following is known to often lead to adverse impact?

Group of answer choices

Work Samples

Cognitive ability test

Structured interview

Personality test of conscientiousness

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You are tasked with establishing the validity of a selection procedure, which must be completed as quickly as possible because you need to use it to determine who to select for a job that was already posted! Which approach should you use?

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Construct Validity

Concurrent validity

Content Validity

Predictive validity

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Xica is looking for a reliable way to assess openness to experience, given what you know about criterion validity, face-validity, and reliability, of the following is the

most

preferrable strategy?

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Structured Interview with questions built in to assess openness to experience

The openness factor on the Big 5 Personality Test with “at work” frame of reference

The openness factor on the Big 5 Personality Test

Unstructured Interview with the interview modifying questions to make sure they can sufficiently assess openness to experience

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Hoda decided that Raylene was not going to be promoted based on her older age. This is an example of:

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Disparate treatment

Strategic foresight

4/5 rule

Adverse impact

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Ricardo needs to establish that extraversion predicts performance so that he can use it to select applicants in about 1 year. Which of the following is most appropriate?

Group of answer choices

Establish construct validity

Establish predictive validity

Establish concurrent validity

Conduct a job analysis

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Which of the following is the strongest predictor of performance across jobs?

Group of answer choices

Cognitive ability

Integrity

Conscientiousness

Extraversion

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Victor is developing a new safety protocol training on proper chemical disposal, risks associated with each chemical, and emergency response practices. Victor wants to make sure trainees pass each part of the training with a knowledge quiz and wants the material to be standardized so it can be rolled out across all 24 chemical plants. Which training program should Victor use?

Group of answer choices

Behavioral Modeling Training

On-the-job training

Programmed instruction

Simulation

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Noah is training his sales staff on overcoming objections and interpersonal skills. He thinks the best way to do this is for employees to listen to Noah’s sales calls, practice doing mock sales calls with each other, and then practice doing mock sales calls with Noah, so he can provide feedback. Which training aligns with what Noah thinks will be most effective?

Group of answer choices

Behavioral Modeling Training

Lecture

Programmed instruction

Orientation

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When an organization sends an employee to diversity training that reoccurs 1 time a week, what type of approach is being used?

Group of answer choices

climate-based learning

repetitive learning

massed learning

spaced learning

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Darius created a training on food safety handling for a small restaurant in San Jose. At one month following the training, he observed workers for several hours to determine training effectiveness. What best describes what was he assessing?

Group of answer choices

Reactions

Results

Transfer

Learning

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Which of the following best establishes training effectiveness?

Group of answer choices

Utility judgements

Behavior

Learning

Reactions

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Astronauts for NASA are training to visit Pandora, a distant moon. The journey to arrive there is highly dangerous and the job of flying the spaceship is very safety sensitive. What is the ideal training tool to be used considering how dangerous and safety sensitive the mission is?

Group of answer choices

Two-way lecture

Simulators

Behavioral modeling

On-the-job training

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You want to increase trainee motivation; generally speaking which method would be best suited to do this?

Group of answer choices

Lecture

Spaced Learning

E-learning

Gamification

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Over-learning may be an effective approach to training because it can increase

Group of answer choices

interpersonal skills

affective reactions

automaticity

utility judgements

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Which of the following is


untrue


about people with low metacognitive skill

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Will likely gain knowledge with appropriate training

Likely to self-select into trainings

Will do best with honest feedback

Likely to be overly confident

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What is your favorite content area/chapter we have covered in I Psych?