Psychology 3610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Descriptive Knowledge, Assessment Centre, Procedural Knowledge
3 Mar 2016
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Lecture #4 (missed 10 minutes at the start). Work performance = declarative knowledge x procedural knowledge and skill x. Procedural knowledge: cognitive skill, psychomotor skill, physical skill, self-management skill, interpersonal skill. Motivation1) choice to perform: level of effort, persistence of effort. Typical performance, the person"s day to day, typical level of job performance. Maximum performance: the level of job performance that the person is capable of when maximally motivated. For example, a firefighter or swat team etc, generally the maximum performance is more important. For the vast majority it is probably typical which is what organizations would be most interested in, but as listed above the others are concerned with maximum performance. Is tp level similar to mp level: 1400 cashiers from a chain of grocery stores were assessed on tp and. Mp: assed cashiers to scan standardized carts of groceries as quickly and accurate as possible- speed and accuracy were computed.
