PSYCH339 Study Guide - Final Guide: Procedural Justice, Stereotype Threat, Regression Analysis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH339
• Professor: James Beck

Document Summary

Trying to screen people out, want to screen out who can"t even fake, or didn"t mention keywords, good for multiple hurdle approach (make it less expensive: multiple hurdle. Pass one to be able to take second. Test that"s simplest and cheapest to go first: multiple cut-off. Also multiple tests but everyone takes all but minimum cut scores set for each test. If anyone doesn"t pass the cut-off for any of the test, screen out. If one or all of tests are absolutely critical for the job. High scores one one predictor can compensate for low scores on another. Clinical: assessor uses judgement and expertise; appealing because people think they are good at it and look at broken legs. Problem: people are bad at it, different definitions of broken legs, unreliable measurement of broken legs. Mechanical: combining info in some systematic way; unit weighting simple add up or optimally weight factors with multiple-regression.