The Popular Practice of Relying on Current Employee Referrals as a Source

question 9

Multiple Choice

The popular practice of relying on current employee referrals as a source of new job applicants tends to result in candidates who:

• A)have similar characteristics to present employees
• B)are better than present employees.
• C)are more diverse than the current workforce
• D)have not been discriminated against.

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Definitions:

Object Permanence

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed or heard, a critical concept in cognitive development of infants.

A-not-B Error

A cognitive error observed in young children, where they wrongly assume that an object at a hidden location remains there even after seeing it being moved to a new location.

Habituation

A psychological learning process wherein there is a decrease in response to a stimulus after being repeatedly exposed to it.

Sensorimotor Stage

The first of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development, where infants from birth to about 2 years old learn through interacting with their environment using their senses and motor actions.