Critics of Occupational Interest Inventories Have Claimed That

question 51

Multiple Choice

Critics of occupational interest inventories have claimed that 

• A) several major occupational areas have been ignored.
• B) they have helped channel women into gender-typed careers.
• C) age-related bias in the instruments has increased in recent years.
• D) they are biased toward certain ethnic groups.

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Definitions:

Nonsense Syllables

A set of strings of letters that do not follow the phonetic rules of any language and have no meaning, often used in memory and learning experiments.

Encoding Failure

A situation in which information does not enter the long-term memory from the short-term or working memory, often leading to forgetting.

Source Amnesia

The inability to recall when, where, or how previously learned information has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge.

Retroactive Interference

A memory phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with and impairs the recall of previously learned information.