A. A method of distilling job performance into measurable units
B. A precursor to the think- aloud protocol
C. A job analysis method that focuses on specific tasks
D. A technique used to quantity job analysis information
Related Mcqs:
- Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 4
D. 2 & 3 - When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?
A. assimilation
B. adaptation
C. conservation
D. accommodation - In Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, internalizing of action schemes is the major task of the______________ stage?
A. sensorimotor
B. preoperational
C. formal operational
D. concrete-operational - Performance of an earlier task is interfered with by the learning of a second, more recent task in _________________?
A. proactive facilitation
B. proactive inhibition
C. retroactive facilitation
D. retroactive inhibition - 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 - ________ perspective focuses on changes in behaviour and cognitive processes over the life span?
A. Developmental Perspective
B. Biological Perspective
C. Humanistic Perspective
D. Psychoanalytic Perspective - The stages of cognitive development associated with Piaget are ____________ in number?
A. seven
B. six
C. two
D. four - In which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development will a child realize that when a volume of water is poured from a tall, narrow beaker, to a wide beaker, the volume remains the same even though it reaches a lower level?
A. preoperational
B. sensorimotor
C. concrete operational
D. formal operation - When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?
A. Hindsight bias
B. Intuition
C. Availability heuristic
D. Conditional reasoning - Which profession is cognitive psychology particularly useful in helping?
A. Doctors
B. Police
C. Chefs
D. Politicians
