In Employment Testing, Individuals Are More Likely to Object to Personality

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Multiple Choice

In employment testing, individuals are more likely to object to personality inventories, attitude surveys, and integrity tests than ability and achievement tests because they

• A) contain items which will be interpreted subjectively
• B) are not seen as relevant
• C) contain items which are too difficult to answer
• D) none of the above

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Definitions:

Representativeness Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that involves judging the probability of an event by its similarity to a prototype or an example that comes to mind, rather than on objective probability.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Confirmation Bias

The propensity to find, interpret, choose, and recollect details in a way that corroborates the existing beliefs or hypotheses of a person.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.