Psychologists Who Give Potential Employees Tests That Determine What Kind

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Multiple Choice

Psychologists who give potential employees tests that determine what kind of job those employees might be best suited for are interested in the goal of

• A)description.
• B)explanation.
• C)prediction
• D)control.

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Definitions:

Demand Characteristics

Subtle cues or signals in an experimental setting that influence participants' behaviors or responses, potentially affecting the study's validity.

Placebo

A substance with no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.

Randomization

is a process of randomly assigning subjects to different groups in an experiment to ensure that each group is similar and that the results are not biased.

Cause-And-Effect

The relationship between events where one or more are the result of the other(s), often used in scientific and philosophical contexts to explain causality.