Psychology 2080A/B Lecture : Chapter 18 Summary of Ch 18

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Chapter 18: testing in industrial and business settings. If negative evidence is found the person will likely not be hired unless there is a high demand for workers and few individuals are available to fill open positions: a study by e. c. Webster demonstrated the importance of making an impression: as few as one unfavourable impression was followed by a final rejection rate of. Interviews remain the primary tool for selecting employees: however, personnel psychology places a strong emphasis on formal quantitative models and the use of tests for employee selection. If the costs of a false positive are too high, you may want to raise the cutting score. This could be that the patient lived, that the person succeeded at the job, or that the student did well in college. This is the percentage of applicants who are selected or admitted: determination of validity coefficient: finally, a validity coefficient for.

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