PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Personality Test
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Know why personality testing (pt) was abandoned in the 60s. Know the impact of project a on pt. Understand the concept of incremental validity applied to pt. Personality characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make someone unique; they"re inherent or within a person (from birth), not contextually driven, and remain fairly consistent throughout the lifetime. I/o psychologists focus on normal personality values of those traits (too expressive, too reserved, overly shy), or having other traits that prevent other effective behavior (narcissistic) Normal personality the traits that allow someone to function adaptively. Abnormal personality either lacking those traits, possessing out-of-range. Concluded that there was no conclusion between personality and job. Ghiselli (1966) performance, and it was not helpful for employers to continue testing the relationship between the two factors. Around the 1990s, psychologists began reviewing whether this was completely accurate. Background they"re being used to identify abnormal personality traits. opportunity to focusing on job performance.
