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| What is the difference between a speed test and a power test? |
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| speed - short time, complete as much as possible. power- no fixed time limit, more difficult, expected to complete. |
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| Example of individual test? |
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| personality test, intelligence test, upper-level managerial test |
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| Example of performance test? |
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| Manual dexterity, psychomotor skills, manufacturing jobs |
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| What do we use to develop predictors for tests? |
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| Most cognitive ability tests are which kind of test? |
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| What is used as evidence that a particular test is a valid predictor of a performance criterion? |
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| What does the coefficient of determination reflect? |
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| How well one variable predicts the other |
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| 2 types of cognitive ability tests (intelligence tests)? |
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| general cognitive ability and specific cognitive ability |
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| t/f. there is a fair amount of evidence that general cognitive ability accounts for a large proportion of variance in criterion performance. |
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| Meta-analysis of studies in gen. cognitive ability indicate that the validity coefficient for its' measures is... |
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| .53 (25% of performance variance of people is accounted for or can be predicted by measures of general cognitive ability) |
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| types of specific cognitive ability tests? |
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| mechanical ability tests, spatial ability tests, clerical ability |
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| EI became popular recently in part because of the success of this man's book |
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| Daniel Golemans, Emotional Intelligence (1995)q |
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| The combination of high EI and what other characteristic seems to predict performance well? |
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| The Perdue Pegboard is a well-known test for what? |
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| What are the most typical measures of personality assessment? |
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| Self-Report Questionnaires (NEO personality inventory, Hogan personality inventory) |
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| 2 types of integrity tests? |
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| Overt and personality -type |
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| What does the overt integrity test attempt to measure? |
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| Both attitudes towards theft and actual theft behaviors |
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| What does the personality-type integrity test attempt to measure? |
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| personality characteristics believed to predict counterproductive behaviors |
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| consists of a series of standardized job-analysis based questions that are asked of all job candidates. (increases reliability and fair comparison) |
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| constructed haphazardly, no consistency of questions among applicants (generally considered less useful, but more traditional) |
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| Best predictor of job performance? |
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| General Cognitive Ability |
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