To Provide Accurate Performance Appraisals, Samantha Keeps a Box of Index

question 48

Multiple Choice

To provide accurate performance appraisals, Samantha keeps a box of index cards on each of her employees.When an employee does something particularly well or particularly poorly, Samantha writes the event down on a card and puts it in that employee's box.It appears Samantha is using the ______ method of performance appraisal.

• A)critical incidents
• B)management by objectives
• C)narrative method
• D)behavioral anchored rating
• E)qualitative method

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Definitions:

Bartlett

Refers to Frederic Bartlett, a British psychologist known for his work on memory and cognitive psychology, emphasizing how people reconstruct the past.

Loftus

A cognitive psychologist known for her work on the malleability of human memory and the misinformation effect.

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon in which a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information.

State-dependent Memory

The phenomenon that information learned in a particular state of consciousness is more easily recalled when in that same state of consciousness.