Performance Appraisals Are Used Most Often to Make Decisions About

question 68

True/False

Performance appraisals are used most often to make decisions about pay raises, training needs, and advancement opportunities.

Grasp the impact of psychological perspectives on understanding human behavior and thought processes.

Identify the relevance of historical perspectives in psychology to contemporary practices and theories.

Understand the founding contributors and their contributions to psychology, including behaviorism.

Distinguish between Freud's and Watson's perspectives on phobias.

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Definitions:

Somatoform Disorder

A mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that have no identifiable physical cause, often thought to be linked to psychological factors.

PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence, or serious injury.

Hypochondria

An excessive preoccupation with the fear of having a serious illness, despite medical reassurance to the contrary.

Claustrophobia

An anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational fear of being in enclosed or narrow spaces.