PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Barnum Effect, Test Validity, Personnel Selection
5 Apr 2018
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Di erential psychology: study of other forms of individual di erences in addition to personality traits: stability over time, consistency across situation. Rank order: with a change in a given trait, a relative di erence remains between individuals person-situation interactions: selection, evocation, manipulation: strong station almost all people react similarly, situation speci city speci c reaction to speci c situation. Can be detected via:1) infrequent scales, 2) duplicate questions: faking on questionnaires. Limitations of this approach: false negative: think someone who are truthful was faking and reject the data, false positive: think someone who are faking was telling the truth, response sets (see chapter2 note, barnum statements. Personality testing in the workplace predicts: 1) personnel selection, 2) integrity testing, 3) concerns over negligent hiring. Balancing issues in employment context: test validity, test reliability, rationale for test usage, disability discrimination, sex & racial norms, right to privacy. Legal issues in personality testing ion employment settings:
