The General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB)

question 8

Multiple Choice

The General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB)

• A) includes both verbal and performance tasks
• B) is somewhat laborious and complex to administer
• C) is not valid for many jobs in which it is used
• D) both a and b

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies used unconsciously by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and unacceptable impulses.

Conscious Forms

Refers to the aspects or configurations of conscious experience that are known and understood by an individual.

Oral-Retentive

Characterized by behaviors thought to be the result of a fixation in the oral stage of psychosexual development, often manifesting as meticulousness or stinginess.

Projection

A defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to others.