Exam 16: Applied Psychology

Businesses that help customers recycle old computers by putting marked containers for different recycled materials in convenient locations near a college campus are promoting recycling through

The biodata of an employee would NOT include which of the following?

Putting a raised flowerbed around a sign to protect it from vandalism or finding ways to encourage individuals to conserve electricity would reflect the work of __________ psychologists.

Regarding overpopulation and environmental damage, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Psychologists use mock juries to understand

Mark is the CEO of a company, who takes into account his employees' needs by using flextime within the company, so they can attend their children's school activities. He also generously provides his employees with professional development opportunities, which not only improve their skills but enrich the company as well. Because of his encouragement, the employees have been able to "think outside the box" to help the company be competitive within a global market and to have a very profitable year. Mark is exhibiting which type of leadership style?

The organizational culture involves which of the following?

Vocational interest tests are used to rate a person's potential to learn tasks or skills used in various occupations.

During scientific jury selection, a psychologist may interview relatives, acquaintances, neighbors, and coworkers of potential jurors.

"Does the defendant's appearance affect the jury's decision? Do the personality characteristics or attitudes of jurors influence how they vote?" are questions for which specialty area in psychology?

Which was NOT cited as an outcome of job enrichment programs?

To avoid "choking" while he is putting, a golfer must try to

College grade point average (GPA) predicts success in many types of work.

As a manager, you believe that a happy worker is a productive worker, so you try to maintain good morale and labor relations. You are most concerned with

A company that focuses on psychological efficiency is LEAST likely to do which of the following?

Lana is using a teaching approach in which lessons are constructed so richly that they will benefit most, if not all students. The learning materials in this approach are also made simpler and more intuitive by removing unnecessary complexity with the students being given clear grading standards, accurate and complete course outlines, and handbooks to guide them through difficult topics. Lana is using an approach known as __________.

Motor skill is to a motor program as

During a sports performance when an athlete experiences intense concentration, detachment, a lack of fatigue and pain, a subjective slowing of time, and feelings of unusual power and control, he or she is experiencing what is known as

Environmental psychologists have long known that a major barrier to reducing one's use of resources involves a lack of control and __________.

Rather than being communal, most people expect good leaders to be independent, confident, ambitious, objective, dominant, and forceful, which is referred to as being __________.