A BARS System Focuses On

question 51

Multiple Choice

A BARS system focuses on:

• A) A full range of factors that affect any employee's performance
• B) A few critical success factors
• C) Only objective performance indexes
• D) The one critical incident that separates successful salespeople from unsuccessful ones
• E) Only those factors that motivate employees

Explain the concepts of learned helplessness and learned optimism as defined by Seligman.

Apply Seligman's concepts of learned helplessness, learned optimism, and explanatory style to analyze individual behaviors.

Discuss the relation between Seligman's psychological theories and health, including mental health (e.g., depression) and physical health (e.g., relation to heart disease).

Compare and contrast Seligman's theories with those of other psychologists, such as Erikson, Horney, Skinner, and Bandura.

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Definitions:

Two Groups

In research, the division of subjects into two distinct categories for comparison, often used in experimental designs to evaluate the effect of treatments.

Two-Tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the area of interest or rejection region is in both tails of the probability distribution.

One-Tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, testing for a direction-specific hypothesis.

Directional Hypothesis

A hypothesis that specifies the direction of the expected difference or relationship between two variables.