Dr. Greenberg is an industrial/organizational psychologist. In his job at Acme Corporation, he is likely to work on all but which of the following tasks?
a. Use psychological tests to determine the fit between a job applicant's abilities and available positions in thecompany
b. Identify leadership qualities that are most effective in increasing worker productivity. c. Examine ways to make computer systems easier to use.
d. Conduct a survey to determine employees' job satisfaction.
e. Conduct a survey to determine which consumers are most likely to buy Acme's products.
e
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According to Hofstede (2001), which of the following is true of the difference between masculine and feminine cultures in terms of sexuality?
a) Cultures high on masculinity tended to have norms that encouraged an active role for women in society. b) Cultures low on masculinity tended to have norms that encouraged a passive role for women in society. c) Cultures low on masculinity tended to have double standards about sex. d) Cultures high on masculinity tended to have moralistic attitudes about sex.
In a repeated-measures experiment, each individual participates in one treatment condition and then moves on to a second treatment condition. One of the major concerns in this type of study is that participation in the first treatment may influence the participant's score in the second treatment. What is this problem is called?
a. Individual differences c. Homogeneity of variance b. Order effects d. Bi-treatment effect
Evolutionary-based research on altruism has demonstrated that
a. only humans show any example of helping behavior. b. altruism does not begin to emerge until puberty. c. we abandon immature forms of moral thinking as we develop. d. humans may have a genetic make-up that predisposes them to behave both antisocially and prosocially.
After damage to the lateral hypothalamus, animals ____
a. show normal osmotic thirst but not hypovolemic thirst b. show normal hypovolemic thirst but not osmotic thirst c. eat less d. eat more