For the Last Five Years,the Director of HR for BiscuitMan

question 102

Multiple Choice

For the last five years,the director of HR for BiscuitMan Foods has given all new hires an "interpersonal intelligence" test.Now,the director is asking his assistant to calculate the correlations between each employee's test score and his/her performance appraisals,promotion records and whether they have stayed with the firm or have left.The HR director is conducting a

• A) synthetic validity test.
• B) concurrent validity test.
• C) face-validity test.
• D) predictive validity test.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

The process of acquiring new behaviors by watching the actions of others and the outcomes of those actions.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic technique used in behavioral therapy to gradually reduce phobia, anxiety, or fear by exposing the individual to the feared object or context in a controlled manner.

Causal Attribution

Explanation for why an event occurred.