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  • A. Motivation
  • B. Procedural knowledge and skill
  • C. Personality factors
  • D. Declarative knowledge

Explanation: Campbell’s direct determinants of performance are declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge and skill, and motivation.

Correct answer: Personality factors
  • A. The distribution of emotional roles between genders
  • B. A manager or professional assigned to work abroad
  • C. A culture that minimize distances between individuals
  • D. A culture that depends on the distances between individuals

Explanation: An expatriate is an employee, commonly a manager or professional, who is assigned to work in another country.

Correct answer: A manager or professional assigned to work abroad
  • A. The influence of an individual's personality on work and non- work behaviors
  • B. The application of psychological principles, theory, and research to the work setting
  • C. The concept of contextual work and organizational citizenship behavior
  • D. The study of ways to maximize productivity

Explanation: I-O psychology applies psychological principles and research to workplace issues such as employee selection, performance, motivation, and…

Correct answer: The application of psychological principles, theory, and research to the work setting
  • A. Time and motion
  • B. Revery obsession
  • C. Hawthorne studies
  • D. Stanford- Binet

Explanation: Time-and-motion studies and the Hawthorne studies directly examined workplace productivity.

Correct answer: Stanford- Binet
  • A. Telecommuting
  • B. Virtual teams
  • C. Digitization
  • D. Welfare- to- workTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Virtual teams are groups whose members work together from different geographic locations using communication technology.

Correct answer: Virtual teams
  • A. Biographical inventory
  • B. Integrity test
  • C. Interviewer illusion
  • D. Structured interview

Explanation: Integrity tests assess attitudes toward honesty, rule breaking, and dishonesty, including whether a person views lying negatively.

Correct answer: Integrity test
  • A. A leniency error
  • B. The halo effect
  • C. A central tendency error
  • D. A severity errorEnroll In Courses

Explanation: The halo effect occurs when one overall impression causes an evaluator to give similar ratings across different performance dimensions.

Correct answer: The halo effect
  • A. A male who has a history of violence
  • B. An individual with high self- esteem who received negative feedback recently
  • C. A person who has a history of conflicts with co- workers
  • D. A female who recently received increased job responsibilities

Explanation: A female employee who has recently received increased responsibilities has fewer established risk indicators for workplace violence than…

Correct answer: A female who recently received increased job responsibilities
  • A. Primary prevention strategy
  • B. Secondary prevention strategy
  • C. Tertiary prevention strategy
  • D. None of the aboveTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Primary prevention targets the source of stress by modifying or removing stressful conditions before they produce harm.

Correct answer: Primary prevention strategy
  • A. Success in one role can buffer the effects of failure in another role
  • B. Multiple role increase the opportunity for social support
  • C. Multiple roles allow an individual to focus more on work success
  • D. Multiple role increase an individual's cognitive complexity

Explanation: Multiple roles can provide social support, increase cognitive complexity, and allow success in one role to protect self-esteem after…

Correct answer: Multiple roles allow an individual to focus more on work success
  • A. Eustress; stress
  • B. Stress; eustress
  • C. Distress; eustress
  • D. Eustress; distress

Explanation: Eustress is beneficial stress that energizes goal-directed effort, whereas distress is prolonged or harmful stress associated with…

Correct answer: Eustress; distress
  • A. A desire to contribute positively to the work- life of others
  • B. Acceptance and belief in an organization's values
  • C. A strong desire to remain in the organization
  • D. A willingness to exert effort on belief of the organization

Explanation: Organizational commitment traditionally involves accepting the organization's values, willingly exerting effort for it, and strongly…

Correct answer: A desire to contribute positively to the work- life of others
  • A. Emotion; Models
  • B. Moods; Emotions
  • C. Feelings; Moods
  • D. Moods; Feelings

Explanation: Moods are relatively diffuse and lasting feeling states that usually do not interrupt ongoing activity, whereas emotions are more intense…

Correct answer: Moods; Emotions
  • A. The halo effect
  • B. Selection bias
  • C. Central tendency bias
  • D. Interviewer illusion

Explanation: The interviewer illusion is the mistaken confidence that one can accurately detect qualities such as honesty or lying during an interview.

Correct answer: Interviewer illusion
  • A. Techniques
  • B. Observations
  • C. Examinations
  • D. Programmes

Explanation: Standardized tests, interviews, and case histories are all psychological assessment techniques.

Correct answer: Techniques
  • A. Measurement
  • B. Self-observation
  • C. Observation
  • D. Self-questioning

Explanation: Introspection means observing or examining one's own mental experiences, so self-observation is its closest equivalent.

Correct answer: Self-observation
  • A. Evaluation
  • B. Formulation
  • C. Utilization
  • D. Observation

Explanation: Casual observation is often subjective because it is influenced by personal expectations, selective attention, and bias.

Correct answer: Observation
  • A. Year to year
  • B. Month to Month
  • C. Week to Week
  • D. Day to Day

Explanation: Human behaviour and performance can fluctuate from day to day because of changing mood, health, motivation, fatigue, and circumstances.

Correct answer: Day to Day
  • A. 20th
  • B. 19th
  • C. 18th
  • D. 17th

Explanation: During the nineteenth century, European psychologists devoted substantial attention to sensory experience and mental imagery as psychology…

Correct answer: 19th