Many large companies and organizations, as well as government agencies, hire experts in assessment to help make certain that their hiring and promotion practices result neither in disparate treatment nor disparate impact. This is so because
A. being found guilty of disparate treatment has resulted in jail time for corporate employees.
B. the mere allegation of discrimination can be a source of great expense for any employer.
C. being found guilty of disparate impact has resulted in exorbitant fines to organizations.
D. None of these.
Answer: B
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Which of the following has been used as an argument for the use of deception in psychological research?
A. Deception is used so infrequently in psychological research that it should be banned. B. Deception causes people to not trust experts. C. General moral principles are sometimes suspended in other areas of life, such as in legal and medical practice. D. Deception contradicts the principle of informed consent in research.
Regarding short-term memory (STM), which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. STM has a limited storage capacity. b. Although information can be stored in STM in images, it is generally stored phonetically. c. It is very difficult to do more than one task at a time in STM. d. Once information is placed in STM, it is permanently stored.
Adolescents stuck in either __________ or __________ are passive in the face of identity concerns and have adjustment difficulties
A) foreclosure; diffusion B) foreclosure; moratorium C) diffusion; achievement D) moratorium; achievement
Children in poorer areas of cities such as Kolkata, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro are smaller than their counterparts in affluent areas of the same cities. These differences in height are a reflection of __________
a) genes and environment b) heredity and diet c) ethnicity and diet d) nutrition and disease