You Want to Make a Good Impression in Your Job

question 37

Multiple Choice

You want to make a good impression in your job interview. Based on your knowledge of the primacy effect, what would be the most effective strategy?

• A) Talk about why you disliked your last job
• B) Present your future employer with information about your weaknesses before your strengths
• C) Present your future employer with information about your strengths before your weaknesses
• D) Don't provide any information about your strengths or weaknesses

Explain the influence of top-down processing on perception.

Describe how expectations and past experiences shape perception.

Discuss the concept of absolute thresholds and their role in sensory perception.

Understand the impact of subliminal stimuli on perception and behavior.

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Definitions:

College Professor

An academic and often a researcher at a college or university who teaches and guides students in a specific field of study.

Information-Processing Models

Frameworks that describe the stages through which information passes to be encoded, stored, and retrieved from memory, analogous to a computer.

Computer's Operation

The functional processes and calculations performed by a computer in order to execute commands and run software applications.

Relearning

The process of learning material or skills that were previously learned and then forgotten, often facilitated by recognition of familiar aspects.