Application Forms Used in Employment Settings

question 114

Multiple Choice

Application forms used in employment settings

• A) are generally considered to be useful for quick screening.
• B) have been shown to have poor validity and reliability in numerous research studies.
• C) are frequently unnecessary, since they usually duplicate information that can be later obtained through interviews, tests, Facebook, and other sources.
• D) Both b and c

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Definitions:

External Attribution

The process of attributing the cause of a person's behavior to situational factors outside the individual.

Social Schemas

Cognitive frameworks that help individuals organize and interpret information about social environments and interactions.

Stereotypes

Widely held but fixed and oversimplified images or ideas of a particular type of person or thing, often based on generalizations.

Person Perception

The process by which individuals form impressions of others based on cues from social interactions and appearances.