Developing assessments tools for selecting and placing employees is of most direct relevance to:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following areas of research in psychology is concerned with assessing individual differences, developing tests, and developing new statistical techniques?

   A. experimental psychology
   B. social psychology
   C. psychometrics
   D. physiological psychology

2. In experiments, placing subjects in experimental groups such that each subject has an equal probability of ending up in any experimental group is referred to as:

   A. random forecasting
   B. fandom selection
   C. random placement
   D. random assignment

3. While selecting a psychological test for personnel selection, main concern regarding the test is _____________?

   A. Objectively
   B. Ease of administration
   C. Validity
   D. Cost
   E. None of these

4. A common method for selecting representative samples is to select them.

   A. randomly from the larger population
   B. strictly from volunteers
   C. by threatening or coercing institutionalized populations
   D. from confidential lists of mall order firms

5. The assessment tools upon which clinicians depends gather information about their clients belong in which of the following categories ?

   A. Interviews
   B. Tests
   C. Observations
   D. All of these choices
   E. None of these

6. By scripting specific job-relevant to be asked of all those applying for a particular work position, a personnel psychologist is most clearly developing a frame work for:

   A. a refractory period
   B. the experience of flow
   C. structured interviews
   D. 360-degree feedback

7. During the third through the eight week of pregnancy, the developing child can be accurately referred to as the ______________?

   A. prenate
   B. zygote
   C. embryo
   D. fetus

8. Alferd Binet is famous for developing the first ___________________?

   A. adult intelligence test
   B. child intelligence test
   C. fixed alternative test
   D. projective test

9. A child is largely nonverbal, is learning to coordinate purposeful movements with sense information, and is developing the concept of object permanence. The child is in Piaget’s_____stage.

   A. sensorimotor
   B. preoperational
   C. concrete operational
   D. formal operations

10. The stage of prenatal development during which the developing organism is most vulnerable to injury is the:

    A. zygotic stage
    B. germinal stage
    C. embryonic stage
    D. fetal stage