PSY 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Verbal Abuse, Evoked Potential, Facial Expression
Document Summary
Honesty and integrity tests - screen applicants for jobs requiring honesty. Scales from the mmpi and cpi, employee reliability inventory. Integrity adds more validly to mental ability than any other non-cognitive predictor. Ada: protects recovering, but not current, drug abusers. Reliability: test results are consistent but not necessarily accurate. Type-token ratio (ttr) - number of unique words in a verbal statement compared to total number of words. Deceiver provide a wider vocabulary, to sound more intelligent, and speak fewer words to avoid mistakes. Consistency and contradiction: deceivers make more errors, especially under unusual conditions. Reporting in reverse order, reporting form another"s perspective. Emotional intelligence - personal ability to understand one"s own feelings, empathize with others, respond to nonverbal signals, work hard and enjoy life, and regulate one"s emotions. Similar to social competence, emotional competence, social intelligence, intra-personal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence. Issues of construct validity, convergent and divergent validity, and other psychometric properties.
