Personnel Managers Usually Want to Know Where a Job Applicant

question 26

Multiple Choice

Personnel managers usually want to know where a job applicant ranked in his or her graduating class.With a grade point average of 3.83,Michelle Robinson graduated above the 93^rd percentile of her graduating class.What is the percentile rank of a student whose GPA was the median GPA.

• A)25^th
• B)50^th
• C)75^th
• D)10^th
• E)93^rd

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Stimulus

In behavioral psychology, an automatically triggering stimulus that leads to a natural response without the need for prior learning.

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon in learning where a previously extinguished response re-emerges after a pause in exposure to the conditioning stimulus.

Learned Response

A behavior developed as the result of conditioning, where an individual learns to respond in a certain way to a specific stimulus.

CS (Conditioned Stimulus)

A stimulus that was neutral but becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response in classical conditioning.