Asking a Prospective Employee a Question Like "Tell Me About

question 281

Multiple Choice

Asking a prospective employee a question like "Tell me about a situation where you took action to solve a problem that you were facing" would happen when the ________ approach is being used.

• A)aptitude testing
• B)behaviour-based interviewing
• C)curveball
• D)testing
• E)assessment centre

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Definitions:

Electra Complexes

A psychoanalytic theory describing a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father, akin to the Oedipus complex in boys.

Freudian Theory

A psychological theory developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious drives and conflicts as the primary sources of human behavior.

Oedipus

A character in Greek mythology whose life events inspired the psychoanalytic theory of the Oedipus complex, involving a child's unconscious desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of human development that contends that irrational, unconscious drives and motives underlie human behavior.