The Tendency to Select Employee Ratings in the Middle of a Rating

question 72

Multiple Choice

The tendency to select employee ratings in the middle of a rating scale is called:

• A) leniency bias.
• B) harshness bias.
• C) central tendency.
• D) similarity bias.

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Development

Sigmund Freud's theory outlining how personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id focus on distinct erogenous zones.

Libidinal Energy

A term primarily used in psychoanalysis to denote the instinctual sexual drive or desire that motivates human behavior.

Erogenous Zones

Areas of the body that experience heightened sensitivity and can generate sexual pleasure when stimulated.

Collective Unconscious

Jung’s hypothesized store of vague memories that represent the history of humankind.