Legitimate Power of a Person Is Reduced If the ________

question 65

Multiple Choice

Legitimate power of a person is reduced if the ________.

• A) person's selection for a managerial position is questionable
• B) person also has the power to punish or withdraw rewards
• C) person is a specialist regarded widely as an expert
• D) person's selection was through an electoral process

Identify different types of personality assessments and their purposes.

Understand the characteristics and uses of projective tests in personality assessment.

Recognize the role of behaviorist approaches in assessing personality, including methods and challenges.

Distinguish between various personality inventories and their applications.

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Definitions:

Test Power

The probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis, effectively detecting an actual effect when it truly exists.

Type II Error

A statistical error made by failing to reject a false null hypothesis (a false negative).

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a distribution, indicating how much the individual data points deviate from the mean.

Sample Size

Sample size refers to the number of observations or data points collected in a statistical study, which is critical for ensuring the reliability, validity, and generalizability of the study's results.