Assignment
1. Define inference and assumption, and then explain the relationship between the two. Provide two examples of inferences that you made from assumptions that you have.
2. Describe two intellectual standards, and give examples of each from your own life.
3. Describe the movement of the person in Plato's allegory of the cave. Be very specific about the various stages in this movement, and then please explain how this allegory relates to at least two intellectual standards.
4. One of the primary goals of a staffing-oriented job analysis is to identify the job-related worker characteristics. Job-related worker characteristics can be thought of in terms of __________.
KASOs
KSAOs
KSOAs
KSAs
5. __________replaced __________, which described what workers did on a job with regard to seven categories.
The structured questionnaire method; the position analysis questionnaire
O*Net; job analysis
O*Net; the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles; O*Net
6. __________ functions are defined by the __________ as the fundamental duties or tasks of a position.
Job analysis; person specification
Person specification; ADA
Task inventory; essential criteria
Essential; ADA
7. Nonmonetary rewards best defines __________, whereas rewards that have monetary value best defines __________.
total rewards, job rewards
intrinsic rewards, extrinsic rewards
extrinsic rewards, intrinsic rewards
job rewards, total rewards
Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term
Purpose
Information
Point of view
Assumptions
Concepts
Breadth
Clarity
Logic
Inference
Intellectual relativity
A. Gateway intellectual standard that determines whether a statement is accurate or relevant
B. Data, facts, and observations that are used by human reason to understand its reality
C. General categories or ideas that humans use to interpret and classify the information that comes into their thinking
D. A step of the mind whereby someone concludes that something is true based on something else being true or seeming to be true
E. Combination of thoughts that are mutually supporting and make sense in combination
F. Thinking that demonstrates consideration of alternative points of view
G. Those things that humans take for granted based on their past experiential knowledge
H. The idea that nothing can be proven to be true
I. The frame of reference, perspective, or worldview that underlies one's reasoning
J. The goal of objective of thinking.