Asking an interviewee for a job whether she views lying in a negative light is an example of a (n):

Related Mcqs:

1. An interview feels certain that he can tell who is lying in a job interview. His certainly in his ability is an example of:

   A. The halo effect
   B. Selection bias
   C. Central tendency bias
   D. Interviewer illusion

2. People with opposing views of capital punishment reviewed mixed evidence regarding its effectiveness as a crime deterrent. As a result, their opposing views differed more strongly than ever. This best illustrates:

   A. the farming effect
   B. the availability heuristic
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. belief perseverance

3. Andrea views her work as primarily an opportunity to climb up the corporate ladder in pursuit of increasingly better positions. Andrea apparently views her work as a:

   A. flow
   B. contract
   C. career
   D. calling

4. The foot- in- the- door technique involves asking people to agree to a_______request first to increase the like hood that they will comply with a_______request later.

   A. large; small
   B. small; large
   C. large; large
   D. large; larger

5. Tanvir is a graduate student who is studying identity formation. He selects a group of 5-year-olds, a group of 10-years-olds, and a group of 15-year-olds, and a group of 15-year-olds, and interviews each group asking them what they plan to be when they finish school. In this example, Tanvir is using:

   A. a multi-factorial research design
   B. a longitudinal research design
   C. a cross-sectional research design
   D. a nested condition research design

6. Kim is trying to thread a needle, but the light is fairly dim. Due to the lack of light, the part of her eye that will help most in threading the needle is ________________?

   A. cones
   B. rods
   C. lens
   D. cornea

7. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

8. The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:

   A. Feature detection.
   B. Bottom-up processing
   C. Pre-attentive processing
   D. The phi phenomenon

9. In bright light, the iris_______and the pupil________to control the amount of light entering the eye.

   A. Expands; constricts
   B. Constricts; expands
   C. Focuses; constricts
   D. Constricts; focuses

10. Which of the following characteristics are contributors to job satisfaction, as identified in Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) influential job characteristics theory? 1: Variety 2: Recognition 3: Task identity 4: Task difficulty

    A. 1,2 & 3
    B. 1 & 2
    C. 2 & 3
    D. 3 & 4