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industrial testing
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- employee selection
2. employee performance appraisal
2
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employee selection 5 stages
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- job analysis
- choice of tests
- administration of tests
- collection of criterion data
- analysis of data
3
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useful tests for employee selection
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- the DAT (differential aptitude test battery)
- GATB (general aptitude test battery)
- wonderlic
- Bennett mechanical test
4
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wonderlic
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group test of general mental ability
5
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DAT
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measures grades 7-12 and some adults ability to reason generally and be successful
6
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Bennett mechanical test
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applications and hands on knowledge of equipment
7
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GATB
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work related cognitive test
8
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personal selection for employee selection
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- biodata
- interview
- ability tests
- personality tests
- work sample
- situational exercise
- in basket tests
9
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biodata
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what do they like to do, what is their biology. basically like?
10
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work sample
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blue collar work related tests, see someone actually doing this stuff
11
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situational exercise
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how do you deal with this situation
12
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in basket test
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set up a scenario and look at how the interviewie handles it
13
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personal appraisal
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- performance measures: productivity
- personal data: absenteeism
- peer ratings
- supervisor ratings: BARS
14
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BARS
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behaviorally anchored rating scale
15
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career counseling
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- strong interest inventory(what they like)
2. Campbell interest (what are you interested in so we can find good jobs for you)
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clinical testing
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- how important are the issues
- answering the referral question
- adds specific information
- testing cost, time, and need
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errors to avoid in clinical testing
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- schematization (when you only center on one or two characteristics of a person)
- information overload (too much information to deal with)
- insufficient evidence (not enough information to make a conclusion)
- over interpretation (deeper interpretation for things that are not actually there)
- lack of external validation (there is no evidence of the thing that the person is saying happened)
- lack of integration (you have information but you don’t integrate it to present the whole picture of the person)
- overpathologizing (be careful not to do this even if they seem “crazy”, focus on strengths)
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how to do clinical interpretation
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- pattern analysis (look for patterns in behavior)
- report writing: case of Bradley (a case study)
- Barnum effect (don’t write too generally, make statements specific about the person)
- full -scale assessment report
- meehl’s book: clinical vs statistical prediction
- mini-mental status exam (
19
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information to ask
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- remote memory
- ability to comprehend
- reading background
20
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comprehension
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- practical judgment
2. correct social actions
21
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arithmetic
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- basic reasoning
2. symbol facility
22
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similarities
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- capacity for associative thinking
- interests and reading patterns
- select verbal ability
23
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vocabulary
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- learning ability
- fund of information
- richness of ideas
- quality of language
24
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digit span
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- memory span
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block design
1. figure relations
| 2. figural selection
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picture arrangement
1. evaluation
2. social relations
3. visual comprehension
4. social alertness
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advantages of clinical method
1. case histories
2. direct observations
3. how they handle frustration
4. utilize and synthesize diverse data
5. systematic intervieiwng
6. depends on professional training, ability, personality and experience
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Neurological testing
1. bender-gestalt visual motor test
2. luria-nebraska
3. hosted-retain
4. NAB: neuropsychological assessment battery
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Forensic testing
1. Hare's PCL-R
| 2. psychopathy checklist
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review topics
1. employee selection procedures
2. neurological tests
3. clinical approach/interpretation of clinical approach (how we can use the wechleser test pattern analysis, scoring on subtests, observation)
4. performance appraisel
5. forensic psychological test
6. advantages of clinical approach
7. hare psychopathy checklist
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personality
1. it Is largely unconscious and hidden
2. organized and consistent pattern of unique traits
3. set of learned behaviors
4. temperaments and emotionality-type
5. organized set of defense mechanisms
6. individual dispositional differences
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is personality the same as character
?
33
hippocrates 5th century
four humors
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four humors
1. yellow bile
2. black bile
3. blood
4. phlegm
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galen personalities
1. choleric
2. meloncholy
3. sanguine
4. phlegmatic
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gall
phrenology 37 temperaments
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kretchmer
thought he could tell if a person had schizophrenia or manic-depressive based on body type
1. schizophrenic: elongated physique
2. manic depressive: rounded and soft
3. introverted: tall and slender
4. extraverted: heavy and rotund
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Sheldon
body type and personality pattern
1. ectomorphic(extroverted)
2. mesomorphic (introverted)
3. endomorphic
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Sheldon said he could make correlations based on peoples body types
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jung-eysneck-tempermens
1. unstable
2. stable
3. introverted
4. extroverted
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unstable, extrovert
choleric
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instable introvert
melancholy
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stable introvert
phlegmatic
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stable extrovert
sanguin
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trait factor-big five Neo inventory
1. ocean
2. open to experience
3. conscientious
4. extroverted
5. agreeable
6. neurotic
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psychoanalytic theory
1. structure of the mind
| 2. defense mechanisms
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freud stages of personality development
1. oral
2. anal
3. phalic
4. latent
5. genital
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millon's normal personality patterns
1. forceful
2. confident
3. sociable
4. cooperative
5. sensitive
6. respectful
7. inhibited
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mildly severe foundation
1. antisocial
2. narcissistic
3. schizotypal
4. histrionic
5. dependent
6. passive-aggressive
7. compulsive
8. avoidant
9. schizoid
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personality definition gordon allport
1. is the dynamic arrangement in the individual of those psychophysical systems which determine his unique adaptation to his environment
2.
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physophysical
emotional functioning
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Personality projectiles
1. Rotter incomplete sentences
2. Rorschach
3. TAT
4. H-T-P
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what is trait
relative enduring way in which a person differs from another
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4 methods of controlling peoples response
1. cooperation
2. structure of the task
3. use scales
4. look for inconsistencies
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disadvantages of inventories
1. social desirability
2. dissimulation (untruthfully response)
3. influenced by mood swings/situation
4. test dependent on items asked
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advantages of inventories
1. clear scoring directions
2. no special training to administer
3. group administration
4. good reliability and validity
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projective test hypothesis
advantage for projective technique s that a person gets unprotected motivations and desires that other tests could not get
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advantages of projective testing
1. rapport
2. less susceptibility for faking
3. no right or wrong answers
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disadvantages of projective test
1. what is an abnormal response
2. verbal ability required
3. lack of objective scoring
4. normative data missing
5. reliability and validity issues
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