Mark Meets Briefly with Applicants for Positions in His Company

question 420

Multiple Choice

Mark meets briefly with applicants for positions in his company and relies on his immediate gut-level first impressions in deciding whether to offer them a job.Mark's employment decisions are most clearly guided by

• A) an operational definition.
• B) the testing effect.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) intuition.

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Definitions:

Emotional Responses

The experiential, physiological, and behavioral reactions that occur in response to stimuli perceived as emotionally significant.

Deliberate Choice

The act of making a decision consciously and intentionally.

Availability Heuristic

A psychological shortcut that leverages the readily available examples in someone's consciousness when deliberating on a particular matter, concept, methodology, or decision.

Airplane Crash

An incident involving the failure and destruction of an aircraft during flight, usually leading to casualties.