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Imagine that you are a psychological consultant and that you've been called in to give advice and make recommendations regarding Mind Master Corporation's use of IQ testing. The MMC managers want to use IQ scores to select employees and assign them to various jobs and positions. The managers have asked for your input regarding the basic problems and errors they might have in using IQ scores as a means of predicting individual performance.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following is a method used to minimize the impact of observer influence on the behavior of research participants?
 
  a. Spending time in the setting before collecting data
  b. Paying participants for their time
  c. Asking participants to behave as they typically would
  d. Wearing dark glasses



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Answer to Question 1

The main problem is that IQ is better viewed as a measure of current intellectual functioning than as a measure of overall, fixed intellectual capacity. The company might miss some potentially good workers who only need training and development. Another problem is that capable minority group applicants might be overlooked due to linguistic and cultural biases in the tests.

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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