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| Why use Personnel Selection Methods? |
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| This method is used so jobs can figure out the best person for each job. They use these methods so that they can ultimately save money on interviewing a bunch of folks. This includes handwriting analysis and supervisor ratings. |
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| Combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses. This is normally done by identification of a common measure of effect size, which is modelled using a form of meta-regression. |
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| Does adding something else help your validity? Getting a better prediction. |
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| This is what the supervisor thinks the employee is learning while on the job |
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| The difference between high IQ scores |
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| The difference a 125 and 130 IQ score actually DOES matter despite what some researchers say. |
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| Logic of using 13 year olds in SAT Study |
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| They used 13 year olds to avoid the idea of acheivement caps on the SAT. If there are people who will get an 800 on the SAT do they have the potential to get an 850? We don't know because they can't get anything greater than 800, BUT 13 years olds just don't have the capacity the get an 800 so you're able to test them and eliminate the ceiling effect. |
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| People who have athletic or mechanical abilities, prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants, animals or to be outdoors |
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| Investigate "The Thinkers" |
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| People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems |
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| People who have artistic, innovating or innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured settings using their imagination and creativity. |
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| People who like to work with people to enlighten, help, train or cure them, or are skilled with words. |
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| Enterprising "The Persuaders" |
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| People who like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organizational goals or economic gain. |
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| Conventional "The Organizers" |
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| People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail or follow-through on others' |
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| Relates to Investigative (Thinkers) and Artistic (Creators) |
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| Related to Conventional (Organizers) |
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| Related to Enterprising (Persuaders) and Social (Helpers) |
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| Related to Social (Helpers) |
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| Women who were neurotic were the least satisfied with their sex lives but their husbands were the most satisfied. |
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| Education protects the amount of time you live. |
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| Cognitive Simulation and Cognitive Aging |
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| Does working brain games help delay dementia? |
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| Older typist weren't able to preview and keen in their memory the words ahead as long as young people |
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| Big Five in Relation to Criminal Acts |
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| Conscientiousness and Agreeableness are negatively correlated with Criminal Acts |
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| Selective Survival/Mortality |
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| In a longitudinal study it is specific systematic reasons people are dropping out of your study that will effect your outcome, however if you use cross sectional data this won't be a factor |
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| This is how we tease apart the information and figure out the difference of the average from each individual. |
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| If the average of data doesn't match the pattern of the data, then something is not right. |
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| This shows practice effects because if there were some people who were in the study from the beginning, then others joined half-way through but at the same age as those already in it, they were able to see the decline was the same so practice effects were not a major factor. |
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| If we take away practice effects we see a global decline. |
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| Myth of the Twilight Years |
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| This was trying to say that intelligence doesn't go downhill, but there was much research done after this to disprove this theory and say that it really does decline. |
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| Different Types of Intelligence |
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| All of them decline except for the Gc-Crystalized Intelligence which goes up and stays there throughout |
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| People say that your personality stays the same. There is however a persistent change within the personality throughout the life span. |
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| There seems to be stability although there is change. Most people become more dominant, agreeable, conscientious and emotionally stable over the course of their lives.m |
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| Cumulative Continuity Principle |
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| The relative consistency of personality traits continues to increase throughout the life span |
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| The Corresponsive Principle |
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| Personality trait development is not a continuity versus-change proposition. Rather continuity and change coexist. |
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| What happens to life satisfaction as we get older? |
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| As we age a slight decline occurs and it sharper when we are close to death. (We don't have to know the amount of time we have left to live to know get this sharper decline). It gets even sharper at 5 years before death. |
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| There is something that goes on because even without knowledge of your death your life satisfaction goes down. |
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| School has a huge effect on education. During the summer the amount of knowledge the kids have goes down. In the mountains, children who go to school and that's it are smarter than children who don't go anywhere at all. |
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| Aptitude and Acheievement Tests |
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| There was a .81 correlation between aptitude and achievement tests scores in relation to I.Q. scores |
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| This is the idea that the birthday cut-offs do effect children of the same age because they are starting school a who year later than the other children born b4 the date. They December kids were smarter than the January kids. |
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| Large Age Effects on Materials |
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| The things that you learn in school specifically like math showed the biggest age effects. |
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| The longer the kids were in the orphanages were there was little attention and care, the worse they did on tests later in life |
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| The orphans had more disease than the people in the common group. This is related to psychosocial adaptation. |
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| External Behavior Breeding |
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| Violence breed violence. Children who were abused early and late both decline on their negative external behaviors but late abused had less of this behavior to begin with and they declined more than early abused |
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| What are the three laws of genetics? |
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1st- All human behavioral traits are heritable
2nd- The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes
3rd- a substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families |
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| Environments that siblings share such that they serve to make them more similar |
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| Environments that siblings don't share, such that they serve to make them less similar |
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| Siblings are similar in traits both physical like their looks and with their mental characteristics like assertiveness, popularity. |
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| How do we calculate the A-C-E Factor |
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1) We can look at MZ twins raised in different homes
2) We can compare biological parents and the children they gave up
3) We can compare siblings were adopted by one family but they are otherwise unrelated
4) Finally we can compare MZ and DZ twins that were raised together |
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“a unitary, general process
functions across a wide variety of cognitive
tasks.”
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“Numerous distinct
cognitive processing units, each responsible
for certain nonoverlapping cognitive tasks.”
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| Genes and environment effect the general parts of a person the same but their skills are effected more by their environment and less by their genes. |
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| Same genes, many outcomes |
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| Genetically related parents provide a rearing environment that is correlated with the genotype of the child |
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| Child receives responses from others that are influenced by her genotype |
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| Child selectively attends to any learns from aspects of his environment as influenced by her genotype. She seeks out the environments that she finds compatible and stimulating. |
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| How do the 3 types of geeffects change with development? |
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| With development, passive diminishes and active increases |
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| When children who were severly abused have a low MAOA gene they are more likely to develop Conduct Disorder, they are more predisposed to violence and can show antisocial personality disorder symptoms. |
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| The environment may be unsystematic, and full of accidents, illnesses or other traumas. Non-shared environmental variability because of unsystematic effects of all environmental events, compounded by equally unsystematic processes that expose us to environmental events in the first place |
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