PSYCH339 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Protected Group, Procedural Justice, Overlearning
3 Apr 2013
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Psych 339 personnel psychology: midterm #2 review. Cognitive capacity to reason, plan and solve problems. Physical: bodily powers muscular strengths, flexibility. General mental ability (gma: nearly all jobs requires. Problem solving, learning, manipulation: gma positively correlated with job performance, higher correlation for more complex jobs, think of gma as atheism if we say a person is athletic. But person probably: learns quickly, can solve problems, can work with a lot of info at once, has no good memory. Iq stands for intelligence quotient : not used anymore. Really only make sense for measuring in children: term iq still used as synonym for. Intelligence, general mental ability, general factor of intelligence (g), cognitive ability. Criterion related validity of gma: criterion validity of gma r = 0. 51, low complexity jobs: r = 0. 23, high complexity jobs: r = 0. 56. As information processing demands increase, so does predictive power of gma.
