Industrial Psychology Exam 2
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Campbell - ✔✔developed hierarchy of job performance. The three direct determinants
of job performance: declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, skills, motivation
general mental ability ("g") - ✔✔the nonspecific capacity to reason, learn, and solve
problems in any of a wide variety of ways and circumstances
cognitive ability testing - ✔✔capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems; mental
ability
perceptual-motor abilities - ✔✔physical attributes that combine the sense (sight, smell,
etc) and motion (coordination, dexterity, etc)
problems with "g" testing - ✔✔
psychomotor abilities - ✔✔"sensorimotor" abilities; physical functions of movement,
associated with coordination, dexterity, and reaction time
five factor model of personality - ✔✔conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness,
emotional stability, opens to experience
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, integrity - ✔✔quality of being honest, reliable, and ethical
when does personality predict performance best? - ✔✔
declarative knowledge - ✔✔understanding what is required to perform a task; knowing
information about a job or job task
procedural knowledge - ✔✔familiarity with a procedure or process; knowing "how"
tacit knowledge - ✔✔action-oriented, goal-directed knowledge, acquired without direct
help from others; "street smarts"
KSAOs - ✔✔ways to measure different attributes; knowledge, skill, ability, other
test norming - ✔✔comparing a test score to other relevant test scores
wonderlic - ✔✔produces a single score
bennett mechanical - ✔✔test of specific abilities
screen-in vs. screen-out testing - ✔✔identify normal personality-may be administered
as a pre employment test; identify psychopathology-generally used for positions of
public trust-may only be administered after offer of employment, best known example
is MMPI
structured interview - ✔✔asks same questions to all potentials
situational interview - ✔✔more future/theoretical oriented
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Campbell - ✔✔developed hierarchy of job performance. The three direct determinants
of job performance: declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, skills, motivation
general mental ability ("g") - ✔✔the nonspecific capacity to reason, learn, and solve
problems in any of a wide variety of ways and circumstances
cognitive ability testing - ✔✔capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems; mental
ability
perceptual-motor abilities - ✔✔physical attributes that combine the sense (sight, smell,
etc) and motion (coordination, dexterity, etc)
problems with "g" testing - ✔✔
psychomotor abilities - ✔✔"sensorimotor" abilities; physical functions of movement,
associated with coordination, dexterity, and reaction time
five factor model of personality - ✔✔conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness,
emotional stability, opens to experience
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, integrity - ✔✔quality of being honest, reliable, and ethical
when does personality predict performance best? - ✔✔
declarative knowledge - ✔✔understanding what is required to perform a task; knowing
information about a job or job task
procedural knowledge - ✔✔familiarity with a procedure or process; knowing "how"
tacit knowledge - ✔✔action-oriented, goal-directed knowledge, acquired without direct
help from others; "street smarts"
KSAOs - ✔✔ways to measure different attributes; knowledge, skill, ability, other
test norming - ✔✔comparing a test score to other relevant test scores
wonderlic - ✔✔produces a single score
bennett mechanical - ✔✔test of specific abilities
screen-in vs. screen-out testing - ✔✔identify normal personality-may be administered
as a pre employment test; identify psychopathology-generally used for positions of
public trust-may only be administered after offer of employment, best known example
is MMPI
structured interview - ✔✔asks same questions to all potentials
situational interview - ✔✔more future/theoretical oriented
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