Psychology 2080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Job Analysis, Social Facilitation, Interpersonal Attraction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

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Types of interview: principles of effective interviewing, problems the interviewer may face. Definition: an interview is a conversation with a purpose, purpose: gathering information about the person being interviewed, outcome: data for description, evaluation, and prediction. The interview as test: huffcutt et al. (2001), employment interviews are not like other tests. Interviews designed to allow us to draw a conclusion ex. should we hire this person: outcome: a complex function of many dimensions. Definition: personality or intelligence tests tell us something specific about test-taker(cid:859)s perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455) or i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)e, whether interview is for employment, clinical interview, a police interrogation, or any other kind: the behavior of the. Interviews are designed to provide information about a number of psychological characteristics interviewee and the conclusion the interviewer reaches will be a complex function of a number of psychological dimensions. Huffcutt et al. (2001): meta-analysis, reviewed 47 studies of the employment interview concluded interviews tell us about, personality, social skills, mental ability.