The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ)

question 44

Multiple Choice

The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) :

• A) assumes that relatively few work behaviors exist across all jobs
• B) has been used to analyze hundreds of jobs held by thousands of people
• C) has high direct costs
• D) assumes that all jobs can be described in terms of how much they involve each of the work behaviors
• E) is accurately described by all of the above

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Definitions:

Breeding Effort

The amount of resources and energy that an individual allocates to reproduction, including mating and raising offspring.

Home Range

The area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis, encompassing the spaces it uses for food, mating, and shelter.

Altruistic

Behavior of an individual that benefits others at its own expense, often seen in social species as a way to enhance group survival.

Fitness Cost

Represents the negative repercussions on an organism's genetic contribution to future generations that can result from the expression of a particular phenotype.