Explain how "perverse incentives" such as COMPSTAT can lead to organizational corruption.

What will be an ideal response?


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Psychology

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An exclusive preschool program has strict enrollment criteria and only accepts children with very high marks on the enrollment test. Unfortunately, they have found that the enrollment test does not correlate highly with the grades the children make. The probable reason is

a. predictor/criterion confusion. b. an invalid criterion. c. convergent evidence. d. range restriction.

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In a within-subjects design, all the subjects provide more than one score, with one mean score per treatment condition.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Psychology

At the park with your toddler, he sits and watches the older children play with their sand buckets in a way your child has never seen before

A few days later, you bring your child back to the park and he plays with his toys the same way the older kids played with theirs days earlier. According to Piaget, what is your son doing? a. secondary circular reactions b. deferred imitation c. object permanence d. action memory

Psychology

Which of the following statements is false regarding schizophrenia?

a. It is a psychosis. b. Its diagnosis is on the rise. c. It is the most severe of the mental illnesses. d. All social classes are equally vulnerable.

Psychology