The Civil Rights Act Applied to All Employment Decisions, but This

question 41

Multiple Choice

The Civil Rights Act applied to all employment decisions, but this legislation is the most critical for

• A) development programs.
• B) designing training seminars.
• C) selection decisions.
• D) developing pay scales.
• E) developing a benefits package.

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Definitions:

Representativeness Heuristic

The tendency to make judgments about group membership based on physical appearances or the match between a person and one’s stereotype of a group rather than on available base rate information.

Divergent Thinking

Thinking that produces many solutions to the same problem.

Convergent Thinking

Thinking that produces the single best solution to a problem.

Deductive Reasoning

A thought process wherein a verdict is reached through the consistency of numerous claims that are often regarded as correct.