A business that asks employees to "satisfy customers" has just established what industrial and organizational psychologists call a(n) ____ criterion.?
a. ?actual
b. ?theoretical
c. ?objective
d. ?subjective
ANSWER:
b
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a. Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984, which based the definition of insanity totally on the individual's ability to understand his or her actions b. the American Law Institute wrote the Model Penal Code, which shifted the burden of determining criminal responsibility from experts to the jury c. the American Law Institute amended its Model Penal Code to include the concept of diminished capacity d. the federal courts amended the insanity laws to place a greater burden on the defendant to prove insanity in assassination cases that involve political figures
Recent research on hypnosis and the Stroop effect has revealed that:
A) simply making suggestions to highly suggestible people has the same effects as hypnosis. B) hypnosis does not allow people to control behaviour that is otherwise beyond their conscious control. C) the Stroop effect continues to be evident, even when participants are in a deep state of hypnosis. D) the Stroop effect is completely eliminated, despite no changes in brain functioning associated with conflict monitoring.
Elias is establishing theoretical criteria for a set of job performance appraisals he will be conducting. Elias should be aware of the limitations of theoretical criteria. For instance, theoretical criteria
A. tend to be subjectively construed by the person conducting the appraisal. B. provide vague outcomes that do not indicate how the behavior will be measured. C. are not as useful when appraising work teams as compared to appraising individuals. D. have not yet been verified statistically with validation studies.
The term __________ refers to a treatment approach that involves multiple dimensions of intervention, including various forms and techniques of psychotherapy, psychoactive medication, and other biological techniques (e.g., psychosurgery, ECT, biofeedback)
a. theoretical b. eclectic c. multifaceted d. Gestalt