PSY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psy, Conscientiousness, Personality Test
31 May 2017
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Adults have a variety of attributes and the levels of these attributes are relatively stable over a reasonable time period. People differ with respect to these attributes and these differences are associated with job success. The relative differences between people on these attributes remain even after training, job experience, or some other intervention. Individual differences can be used to predict work behaviors. Criterions: expected consequences that can be predicted. Job analysis: a purposeful, systematic process for collecting information on the important work-related aspects of a job. Inborn type of individual differences, stable throughout life time. Cognitive abilities: intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. As the complexity of the job increases, the predictive value of tests of general intelligence also increases. That does not mean, however, that high g guarantees success on that job.
