1. When we measure intelligence, the test scores are usually provided by means of
the following score/s:
a) Verbal ability and numerical ability.
b) Verbal IQ, non-verbal IQ, and total IQ.
c) Verbal IQ and numerical IQ.
d) Total IQ.
e) Verbal score and performance score.
The correct answer is: Verbal IQ, non-verbal IQ, and total IQ.
, 2. One of the benefits of competency-based assessment is that it provides criterion
and context-specific information as to the requirements for effective performance
in a job. As a result, a job-specific competency framework…
a) … is a highly reliable measure of competence across a variety of jobs.
b) … is not generalisable across different circumstances or jobs.
c) … has high utility in a different organisation with the same type of positions.
d) … has a low gradient of generalisability.
e) … has a similar gradient of generalisability to intelligence tests.
The correct answer is: … is not generalisable across different circumstances or jobs.
3. Which definition best describes and explains personality as a psychological
construct?
a) Personality is the stable organisation of all the possible traits and characteristics of a
person, that determines how that person will react in all situations.
b) A person’s unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, behaviours and emotions that
characterise the person and determine his or her unique adjustments and responses to
the environment.
c) Personality encompasses all the stable and consistent inborn traits that enable a person
to consistently process information in a set way.
d) Personality is the sum of all the preferred ways of thinking and doing that is unique to an
individual and which do not change over time.
e) The consistent way of acting, thinking, and doing of a person in a specific socio-cultural
context.
The correct answer is: A person’s unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts,
behaviours and emotions that characterise the person and determine his or her unique
adjustments and responses to the environment.
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