As a Job Applicant at Quahog Insurance, Lois Must Complete

question 46

Multiple Choice

As a job applicant at Quahog Insurance, Lois must complete a situational judgment test. For the test, she views a video about various workplace scenarios and then must describe how she would respond if she was in that situation. According to the textbook, such tests are utilized

• A)increasingly as a replacement for standard intelligence tests.
• B)as supplements to cognitive and personality tests.
• C)to test the applicant's level of job-relevant knowledge.
• D)to predict a range of behaviors from absenteeism to organizational citizenship behaviors.

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Definitions:

Duration

Duration refers to the length of time a particular event or condition lasts, measured from its beginning to its end.

Emotions

Complex psychological states that involve a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral or expressive response.

Reticular Activating System

A network of neurons located in the brainstem that is responsible for regulating wakefulness and sleep-wake transitions.

Beta Wave Activity

refers to the brain wave patterns associated with active, alert, and waking states of consciousness, characterized by a higher frequency of neural oscillations.