Personnel Psychology Ch 2-3

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Predictive validity design

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Criterion related validity design in which there is a time lag between collection of the test data and the criterion data.

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Concurrent validity design

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criterion related validity design in which there is no time lag between gathering the test scores and the performance. pg 84

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Content related validation design

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demonstrates that the content of the selection procedure represents an adequate sample of important work behaviors and activities and or worker KSAOs defined by the job. pg 85

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Construct validity

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Validity approach in which investigators gather evidence to support decisions or inferences about psychological constructs; often begins with investigators demonstrating that a test designed to measure a particular construct correlates with other tests in the predicted manner.

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Construct

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Psychological concept or characteristic that a predictor is intended to measure; examples are intelligence, personality, and leadership. pg 86

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Individual difference

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Dissimilarities between or among two or more people. pg 94

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Mental test

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Instrument designed to measure a subject's ability to reason, plan, and solve problems; an intelligence test. pg 95

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Differential psychology

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Scientific study of differences between or among two or more people. pg 95

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Intelligence

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The ability to learn and adapt to an environment; often used to refer to general intellectual capacity, as opposed to cognitive ability or mental ability, which often refer to more specific abilities such as memory or reasoning. pg 95

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Mental ability

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Capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems; cognitive ability. pg 95

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Metric

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Standard of measurement: a scale. pg 95

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Psychometrics

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Practice of measuring a characteristic such as mental ability,m placing it on a scale or metric.

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intelligence test

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Instrument designed to measure the ability to reason learn and solve problems. pg 95

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Psychometrician

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Psychologist trained in measuring characteristics such as mental ability.

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Cognitive ability

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Capacity to reason, plan and solve problems; mental ability. pg 96

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"g"

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abbreviation for general mental ability. pg 96

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General mental ability

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The nonspecific capacity to reason, learn and solve problems in any of a wide variety of ways and circumstances. pg 96

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g-ocentric model

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Tendency to understand and predict the behavior of workers simply by examining "g". pg. 97

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Physical abilities

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Bodily powers such as muscular strength flexibility, and stamina. pg 97

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Emotion

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An effect or feeling, often experienced and displayed in reaction to an event or thought and accompanied by physiological changes in various systems of the body. pg 97

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Taxonomy

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An orderly scientific system of classification. pg 100

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Perceptual motor abilities

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Physical attributes that combine the senses and motion.

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Meta-analysis

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Statistical method for combining and analyzing the results from many studies to draw a general conclusion about relationships among variables. pg 101

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Muscular tension

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Physical quality of muscular strength. pg 107

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Muscular power

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Physical ability to lift pull push or otherwise move an object unlike endurance, this is a one time maximum effort. pg 107

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Muscular endurance

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Physical ability to continue to use a single muscle or muscle group repeatedly over a period of time. pg 107

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Stamina

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Physical ability to supply muscles with oxygenated blood through the cardiovascular system; also known as cardiovascular strength or aerobic strength or endurance. pg 107

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Big 5

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A taxonomy of five personality factors; the five factor model.

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Five factor model

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A taxonomy of 5 personality factors composed of conscientiousness, extroversion agreeableness emotional stability and openness to experience. pg. 110

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Compentencies

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Set of behaviors usually learned by experience that are instrumental in the accomplishment of desired organizational results or outcomes. pg 118

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Bias

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Technical and statistical term that deals exclusively with a situation where a given test results in errors of prediction for a subgroup. pg 129

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Biodata

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Information collected on an application blank or in a standardized test that includes questions about previous jobs educational, specialized training, and personal history also known as biographical data. pg 158

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Ecology model

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underlying model for life history bio-data instruments. Proposes that the events that make up a person's history represent choices made by the individual to interact with his or her environment. These choices can signal abilities, interests and personality characteristics.