Of All the Methods Used in Personnel Selection, Tests of Cognitive

question 47

Multiple Choice

Of all the methods used in personnel selection, tests of cognitive ability have the ________ overall validity for predicting job performance, and the ________ financial cost associated with their use.

• A) lowest; lowest
• B) highest; highest
• C) lowest; highest
• D) highest; lowest

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

An acquired reaction to a stimulus that initially had no specific response but has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus through the process of conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning that happens when an ambient stimulus is paired with a stimulus that occurs naturally, causing a learned behavior.

Operant Conditioning

A means of learning in which the magnitude of an action is shaped by reinforcements or consequences.

Delayed Reinforcement

A conditioning process where there is a time delay between the behavior and the reinforcement.