What is the basic issue in cases that have dealt with claims of discriminatory impact and defamation of character? a. the tendency of reference givers to provide too little information in describing people. b. the tendency of reference givers to provide true and accurate information. c. the tendency of reference givers to omit necessary information in describing people. d. the tendency of reference givers to go beyond necessity in describing people. 

To set a cutoff score for a WAB, you should first plot the scores of your two criterion groups. The, what should you determine? a. where the overlap in the two distributions is the most. b. where the overlap in the two disbributions is the least c. how many people scored above the median d. how many people scored below the median.

Which of the following is not charactgeristic of biographical data questions? a they are self-reported b. they are standardized c. they use open-ended essay responses d. Items may concern attitudes, fellings, and value judgments resulting from experience.

When are job knowledge questions appropriate in an interview? a. when there are a large number of such questions to be asked b. when interview questions refer to actual behaviors such as diagnosis of fects c. for jobs that require verbaliaztion of techmical information and work procedures d. they are appropriate for all situations.

Which of the following is a recommended legally appropriate practice association with the selection interview? a. KSAs should be described in terms of personal traits rahter than behaviors. b. for lower level jobs, use personal traits as a portion of the criteria for selection c. use a demographically mixed set of ecperienced or trained interviewere d. use an usnstructured interview format.

Models of interviewer decision making assume which of the folllowing?

a. the interviewer controls what information is processed and how that information is processed druing the interview b. pre-interview data are postulated to be incorrect and always detrimental to the evaluation of a ... c. the intervidewer and dandidate are gathering and processing information about each other as well as d. the interviewer begins each interview in a neutral state, reacing only to information presented and...

When developing a weighted application blan, two groups are first identified based upon which of the following? a. predictgor scores b. criterion scores c. random assignment d. matched pairs.

Gatewood, R. D., Feild, H. S., & Barrick, M. (2011). Human Resource Selection, 7th ed. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.