Sensory ability refers to the
- ability to quickly respond to signaling information after it occurs.
- capabilities associated with vision and hearing.
- ability to synchronize the movements of the body, arms, and legs.
- ability of the body to bend, stretch, twist, and reach.
- ability to choose the right action quickly in response to several different signals.
Sensory ability refers to capabilities associated with vision and hearing.
Sensory Ability: Capabilities associated with vision and hearing.
Abilities can be modified over time, unlike skills, which remain stable over one's lifetime.
In contrast to skills, which can be improved over time with training and experience, ability is relatively stable.
Abilities are a function of both genes and the environment.
Abilities are a function of both genes and the environment, and the amount attributable to each source depends somewhat on the nature of the ability.
Trust: The willingness to be vulnerable to an authority based on positive expectations about the authority’s actions and intentions.
Hans is one of the most skilled employees at Grand Time, which is a clock manufacturing company that preserves the traditional art of making grandfather clocks by hand. Being an expert, he can often be seen handling screwdrivers and tweezers making intricate designs and fitting in parts. This reflects Hans's ability in the area of
- fine manipulative abilities.
- gross body coordination.
- spatial orientation.
- perceptual speed.
- depth perception.
Fine manipulative abilities refer to keeping the hand and arm steady while grasping, manipulating, and assembling small objects.
Cognitive Abilities: Capabilities related to the use of knowledge to make decisions and solve problems.
Ability refers to the relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities.
Ability refers to the relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities.
Ability: Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities.
The natural level of a given ability generally limits how much a person can improve that ability.
The natural level of a given ability generally limits how much a person can improve, even with the best training, repeated practice, and repetition.
Ability: Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities.
Which of the following represents the three general categories into which abilities can be grouped?
- social, physical, and emotional
- emotional, social, and cognitive
- physical, cognitive, and external
- cognitive, emotional, and physical
- external, internal, and transactional
Abilities can be grouped into three general categories: cognitive, emotional, and physical. Taken together, these abilities capture what people can do.
Emotional Intelligence: A set of abilities related to the understanding and use of emotions that affect social functioning.
Which of the following is a sensory ability?
- response time
- fine manipulative abilities
- response orientation
- control movement abilities
- depth perception
Response time, fine manipulative abilities, response orientation, and control movement are types of psychomotor abilities. Depth perception is a type of sensory ability.
Selective Perception: The tendency for people to see their environment only as it affects them and as it is consistent with their expectations.
Daylen and Daven had totally different childhoods. Daylen was raised in a supportive environment, and Daven was raised in an abusive, neglectful environment. Daylen always scored about fifty points higher than Daven on cognitive ability tests when they were in school. After graduation, they both were hired by the same company for the same occupation. Now, five years later, what would be the most likely result if they both took a cognitive ability test?
- Daven would outscore Daylen because adult cognitive ability is inverse to childhood cognitive ability.
- Daylen would still score about fifty points higher than Daven because ability remains relatively stable over time.
- Daylen would score less than Daven because cognitive ability test scores are based on improvement over previous scores.
- Daven would narrow the scoring gap with Daylen because environmental influences on cognitive ability tend to decrease as people age.
- Daven would score more than fifty points less than Daylen because the test would remind him of the last time he took the test and his abusive childhood.
Differences in cognitive abilities due to the environment become less apparent as people get older, and this may be especially True for the effect of the family environment. As an example, although neglect, abuse, and deprivation may have a negative impact on how children fare on standardized intelligence tests, that negative impact does not tend to carry over into adulthood.
Ability: Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities.
Chet works in a loud factory with multiple machines running at the same time. Somehow, he is able to tell immediately when a machine needs maintenance by subtle differences in the sound it is making. Chet's ability to focus on a single sound in the presence of many other sounds is termed
- depth perception.
- auditory attention.
- speech recognition.
- problem sensitivity.
- verbal comprehension.
Auditory attention is the ability to focus on the source of a sound in the presence of other sources.
Ability To Focus: The degree to which employees can devote their attention to work.
________ is the ability to hear and discriminate sounds that vary in terms of loudness and pitch.
- Auditory attention
- Hearing sensitivity
- Speech recognition
- Verbal comprehension
- Oral expression
Hearing sensitivity refers to hearing differences in sounds that vary in terms of pitch and loudness.
Hierarchical Sensitivity: The degree to which the team leader effectively weighs the recommendations of the members.
________ is the ability to identify and understand the words spoken by another person.
- Hearing sensitivity
- Written expression
- Speech recognition
- Auditory attention
- Oral expression
Speech recognition is the ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Black Top Taxis is hiring new drivers. One of the key selection criteria for potential candidates is the ability to choose the right action quickly in response to several different signals and the ability to respond quickly to signaling information after it occurs. The selection criteria indicate that to be selected, a candidate must have the two psychomotor abilities of
- perceptual speed and extent flexibility.
- control movement abilities and originality.
- visualization and gross motor coordination.
- response orientation and low response time.
- number facility and response orientation abilities.
The ability to choose the right action quickly in response to several different signals is called response orientation. Response time ability reflects how quickly an individual responds to signaling information after it occurs.
________ is the visual ability that helps one see things in low light contexts.
- Near vision
- Far vision
- Night vision
- Visual color discrimination
- Depth perception
The visual ability that helps one see things in low light contexts is called night vision.
Response time refers to the ability
- that reflects how quickly an individual responds to signaling information after it occurs.
- to exert a short burst of energy to move a body or an object.
- to choose the right action quickly in response to several different signals.
- required to differentiate between sound pitches rapidly.
- to quickly bend, stretch, or twist the body.
Response time reflects how quickly an individual responds to signaling information after it occurs.
Depth perception is the ability to
- see details of an object both up close and far away.
- judge relative distances between things accurately.
- recognize objects from their outline silhouette.
- detect differences in shades.
- see well in low light.
The ability to judge relative distances between things accurately is called depth perception.
Which of the following is a psychomotor ability?
- night vision
- auditory attention
- response orientation
- speech recognition
- depth perception
Night vision, auditory attention, speech recognition, and depth perception are types of sensory abilities. Response orientation is a type of psychomotor ability.
Learning Orientation: A predisposition or attitude according to which building competence is deemed more important by an employee than demonstrating competence.