In the Clinical Approach to Decision Making in Employee Selection

question 58

True/False

In the clinical approach to decision making in employee selection, decision makers review all the data on the applicants.

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Definitions:

Mental Health

A state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.

Psychodynamic Model

An approach in psychology that emphasizes the systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes in understanding human behavior.

Psychodynamic Perspective

A view in psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.