Question 1

An HR manager is developing a test for hiring new employees.She plans to give current employees the new test and then correlate their scores with the performance records that are currently in their personnel files.Her method for collecting data can be best characterized as a(n)

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A)  predictive design.
B)  criterion design.
C)  concurrent design.
D)  experimental design.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 2

The shape of a distribution with a large standard deviation would look

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A)  wide because the distribution covers a large range of scores.
B)  wide because the distribution covers a narrow range of scores.
C)  tall and peaked to the left of the mean.
D)  tall and peaked to the right of the mean.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 3

Dr.Groeneveld and Dr.Duran are investigating whether drivers are wearing their seatbelts.They stand on opposite street corners and tally how many drivers passing by are wearing their seatbelts.Which type of reliability does this approach assess when comparing their final tallies across a large number of drivers?

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A)  inter-rater reliability
B)  internal consistency reliability
C)  equivalent forms reliability
D)  test-retest reliabilityE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 4

Sarah is attempting to draw a general conclusion about the influence of worker satisfaction on productivity by quantitatively combining the results from a number of studies.What statistical method would she use?

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A)  meta-analysis
B)  unified analysis
C)  integration analysis
D)  correlation analysisE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

A recent study found that as people's commitment to their job increased,their absences from work decreased.Which correlation coefficient best represents this finding?

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A)  -1.02
B)  0.26
C)  -0.35
D)  0.05E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

The standard deviation refers to

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A)  the typical amount of deviation from the mean.
B)  the extent to which two groups differ on a given variable.
C)  the most frequently occurring score in a distribution.
D)  the extent to which an observed event can be due to chance.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

An independent variable is the term used to

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A)  describe the variable that a researcher manipulates.
B)  describe the variable a researcher measures.
C)  describe the variable that is not accounted for.
D)  describe a variable that cannot be quantitative.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 8

In order for a test to be ________________,it must also be _____________.

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A)  valid; reliable
B)  reliable; valid
C)  reliable; statistically significant
D)  statistically significant; validE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 9

A psychological concept or characteristic (e.g.,intelligence,personality,leadership) that a predictor is intended to measure is a

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A)  construct.
B)  criterion.
C)  validity coefficient.
D)  correlation coefficient.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

Which of the following characterizes a predictive validity design?

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A)  There is a time lag between the collection of the test data and the criterion data.
B)  There is no lag time between gathering the test scores and the performance data.
C)  The test is administered to current employees rather than applicants.
D)  The same test is administered to both current employees and applicants.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 11

Professor Merenich hypothesizes that a person's intelligence will determine how well the person will perform on the job.In this example,intelligence is the

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A)  criterion.
B)  dependent variable.
C)  predictor.
D)  validity coefficient.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 12

Dr.Duran,an I-O psychologist,found that as job satisfaction increases,employee absenteeism decreases.This is an example of a ____________ relationship.

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A)  positive
B)  negative
C)  non-linear
D)  multiple correlationE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 13

According to the text,research designs in I-O psychology can be broken down into three basic types:

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A)  block design,clinical interviews,archival research.
B)  post hoc,a priori,experimental.
C)  t-tests,f-tests,chi square.
D)  experimental,quasi-experimental,non experimental.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 14

When research is focused on individual behavior,it is called:

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A)  Meso-Research
B)  Micro-Research
C)  Meta- Research
D)  Macro-ResearchE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Erin is testing her hypothesis that people who listen to music while on the job perform better than people who do not listen to music.The best way she can draw an inference about the relationship between music and performance would be to use

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A)  measures of central tendency.
B)  standard deviation.
C)  inferential statistics.
D)  factor analysis.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

Which of the following is true of content-related validation?

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A)  There is a tight focus on a test score and a performance score.
B)  There is a tight focus on a job analysis.
C)  A broad net is cast in gathering evidence to support decisions or inferences.
D)  It yields a validity coefficient.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 17

Jake wants to establish a cause-effect relationship between two variables.He should use _______________ to establish causation between the two variables.

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A)  a regression analysis
B)  a non-experimental design
C)  an experimental design
D)  a quasi-experimental designE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 18

As a convention,when visually describing a distribution of scores or numbers,researchers will set the frequency of the scores on the ______axis and the score or numbers associated with a particular criterion on the ____ axis.

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A)  X(horizontal) ,Y(vertical) 
B)  Y(vertical) ,X(horizontal) 
C)  Y(horizontal) ,X(vertical) 
D)  X(vertical) ,Y(horizontal) E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 19

In the early days of psychology,experimenters would record their own thoughts and experiences while completing an experimental task.This experimental method is called

Accepted Answer

A)  inversion.
B)  quantitative method.
C)  introspection.
D)  triangulation.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 20

An approach used by researchers seeking converging information from many different sources is referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  introspection.
B)  observational design.
C)  triangulation.
D)  statistical power.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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