...based on hysteria, that determines who is innocent and who is a witch. We see that in the way that the court treats Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Martha Corey. In act 3, we also see that the court is making decisions blindly. They believe almost anything the girls say, without any proof to back it up. I think that this irrational decision making, is coming from the amount hysteria in the town. The court is so set on finding an answer, they don’t care what is truth or not. We see in act 3, that hysteria is making people believe things that are clearly fake. On page 1205, Abigail is in the courtroom,...
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...Running head: Executives: Making it Big by Faking it Making it Big by Faking it Miki Griffen Kaplan University AB203: Human Resources Management Jessica Marino March 24, 2013 Making it Big by Faking it A 2001 study of 7,000 resumes revealed that nearly 25% of the resumes were fabricated or misleading in reference to their credentials. (www.money-zines.com) This study is just one example of the facts that there are many people who purposely lie to gain employment or attempt to propel their careers by doing so. It is unethical and not fair to professionals that actual go to college and pay for it in an attempt at a better future. When people lie it means that there are less positions out there for the educated personnel that really went to school and invested in their future. Whenever there is a hiring decision that has to be made that requires the candidates to lead others or handle financial responsibilities, it is very important that the applicant’s track record and experience line up and is honestly represented to the hiring organization. It costs any company thousands of dollars to hire new personnel and even though a candidate thinks that they can get ahead by lying about their experience and education. It is quite important in any career field to be honest but in my opinion it is particularly important in the finance field. When a candidate manages or dictates how stock holders and business owners money is managed and...
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...University of Western Ontario, Canada Abstract With an eye toward research and practice, this article reviews and evaluates main trends that have contributed to the increasing use of personality assessment in personnel selection. Research on the ability of personality to predict job performance is covered, including the Five Factor Model of personality versus narrow personality measures, meta-analyses of personality–criterion relationships, moderator effects, mediator effects, and incremental validity of personality over other selection testing methods. Personality and team performance is also covered. Main trends in contemporary research on the extent to which applicant “faking” of personality tests poses a serious threat are explicated, as are promising approaches for contending with applicant faking such as the “faking warning” and the forced-choice method of personality assessment. Finally, internet-based assessment of personality and computer adaptive personality testing are synopsized. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Personality assessment; Personnel selection; Five factor model; Personality and job performance prediction Personality measures are increasingly being used by managers and human resource professionals to evaluate the suitability of job applicants for positions across many levels in an organization. The growth of this personnel selection practice undoubtedly stems from a series of meta-analytic research studies in the early 1990s in which personality...
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...They girls would start speaking verbatim in a different language along with other odd behavior. One of the girls said that it started with a bad headache then she did not remember any of the rest. A total of nine girls were affected, people began to suspect witchcraft. “Mass hysteria is often misunderstood as being an illness that sufferers are making up.” This quote says that it is misunderstood as people faking but that is not true. These mass hysterias both are caused by students in two different schools. The first example of mass hysteria is a chain reaction of these girls getting sick one by one similar to the girls in the salem witch trials. The second example the girls start having odd behavior like in the salem witch trials. These problems could of been caued by multiple people faking or augmenting their sicknesses or from an actual sickness. Sometimes there are viruses that breakout and lots of people get sick. Years later when they realized the witch trials were wrong, The town redressed the...
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... you must be sure to speak directly to your boss. 4Not to a co-worker or secretary. 5If you talk to a person who doesn’t like you. 6The individual may “forget” to give the boss the message. 7Making you look totally irresponsible. 8Or the person may tell the boss, in a sarcastic tone, “Terry is sick again.” 9Transmitting the message that you are definitely faking. 10Second, being careful not to ruin your excuse by overacting or exaggerating. 11For example, coughing on the phone like a tuberculosis victim or sneezing after every word. 12Also, don’t tell the boss that you have a complicated disease. 13Such as bronchitis combined with pneumonia. 14A simple excuse sounds more truthful, so stick with the flu or a stomach virus. 15The most important technique involved in calling in sick is making sure you don’t get caught. 16You must, for instance, be willing to stay home all day. 17So that a co-worker can’t say, “I tried to reach him, but he doesn’t answer.” 18And never return to work after sick leave with a suntan or a leg you broke while skiing. 19If you follow these tips when you call in sick. 20No one can accuse you of “faking it.” 1.F 6. C 11. C 16. C 2.F 7. F 12. C 17. F 3.C 8. C 13. F 18. C 4.F 9....
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...I used to be solely introverted. Though I was content with my behaviour, I always felt that I was missing out. Occurrences as such that have happened include having the praise stolen away from me when I couldn’t share my own answer, or not being chosen for a leadership role. These opportunities were not given to me for being incompetent, I was lacking the confidence and the qualities of an extrovert. In the beginning, I didn’t pursue the change of becoming an extrovert, though the thought of it was in the back of my mind. However, that all changed when I watched a TED Talk video. In this video, the speaker, Amy Cuddy, opened up my eyes, and taught me ways on how to “Faking it until you become it”. She sparked a drive inside of me to follow...
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...with straight-A report cards and double 800s on their SATs to determine if they would be a good fit for their organization but have since moved to more drastic measures to ensure a good match between the employee and Google’s high octane organizational culture. Google has employed personality testing to help them make decisions about hiring by making applicants fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school in an attempt to ensure a good PE fit with the organization. Compare and Contrast Looking at the textbook I selected for this course, Organizational Behavior 10th edition by Kreitner and Kinicki, personality testing is defined as a tool for making decisions about hiring, training, and promotion. The text further points out that personality testing has some issues and constraints. The ideal way to do a personality test is to have a professional psychologist administer the test and interpret the results which are intended to remain confidential. Other issues the textbook noted that are of concern with the personality testing are faking, cheating and illegal discrimination. In reviewing the article titled “Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm”, published in the New York Times on January 3, 2007, there are some comparisons to the text, but there are also some contrasts as well. Google’s use of personality testing is in line with the text definition as Google is using...
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...Assignment The purpose of this project is to give you experience in making clinical diagnoses and to attempt to make sense of the many psychological disorders that are out there. You have been assigned to watch a popular movie. I decided to give this to you before Christmas Break because you will have at least 2 weeks to think of the movies form the list and watch one or two or whatever number you want. Pretend that you are a clinical psychologist, and the character in the movie has come in to your office. There is one central character in the movie that has symptoms of a psychological disorder (sometimes there may be more than one character; I have given you the character with the most obvious symptoms). In your paper, you should give a brief description of the character. Then, you should answer the following: o Identify the diagnosis that you would make of the character. • You should back up your diagnosis with the relevant symptoms displayed by the character (in other words, explain why did you make the diagnosis that you did). Refer to the movie to illustrate the symptoms that the character demonstrates. • Discuss all the possible symptoms of the disorder; does the client show all the possible symptoms, or only some of the possible symptoms of the disorder? • In some cases, the character may be lying, and does not really have a disorder. For example, the person may be faking the disorder to avoid prosecution for a crime. If you feel that...
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...Response to Questions Name Institution Date Explain how the ‘truth’ of photographic images has always been a contested idea. Cite one example from the ‘pre-digital’ era, and one from contemporary culture to illustrate your argument. The images of the photographic in the pre-digital era were taken as the proof and evidence of reality. However, today this belief might not hold because of the technology that might aid the editing of the photographic to assume content and the background preferred by the user. At the pre-digital era, no such techniques were available and the possibility of an individual faking a photographic image was beyond the imaginations of the people (Joyce, 2012, p. 35). This made people believe that the photographic images were nothing but the truth on the ground. This belief was majorly the reason that the people were made to believe on the existence of fairies. People believe that the two photographic images taken by the two girls, Iris and Alice, were the truth and were evidence of existence of before-then, mythical and tale fairies. Nevertheless, the ambiguous nature of the believed existence of fairies and the fact that it was only the two girls who had the chance to interact and photograph the fairies prompted the questions on the authenticity of the images (Alex, 2014, p. 50). There has been a contest to express and defend the truth of photographic images. In the article, Borderland Borms: Arthur Conan Doyle, Albion Daughters, and the politics...
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...piggy who has a logic way of thinking to keep hardship and struggles to a minimum. Hamlets predicaments is that he is required to get revenge on his uncle, King Claudius for the killing of his father and also marrying his mother after he committed the criminal act. However, due to Hamlets unfitness to make his thoughts come to action his revenge is critically put off. This is shown when hamlet has the chance to kill his uncle when he hears him talking about his guilt while praying and hamlet fails to kill him (3:3.39-61) this also shows that Hamlet as a man is not capable of making decisions in “crunch time.” Also, what judges Hamlet as a man is his madness and if he is faking it or not is questionable. This question is confusing because hamlet tells his friends that he is going to act weird in (1:1) also when, he grabs Ophelia’s wrist aggressively and she is scared, this shows that Hamlet may not be faking his madness in (2:1). Lastly Hamlets madness also judges him as a man when he takes a risk to kill Claudius but his insanity, he is accounted for the killing of Polonius, if he had killed his uncle the first time Polonius would still be alive. There is confusion to if, Hamlet is completely insane or if, he is just acting. Next the character Piggy shows that Martin Luther King Jr’s quote is true, this is said because, piggy is a sensible person and has a logical way of thinking in challenging and controversial times. This is shown when piggy did not participate in the fatal...
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...accounting scandals which impacted the companies that were into internet advertising contracts with AOL TW, this brought a loss of advertising revenues. To sustain the strength of AOL TW’s stock prices, AOL’s management resorted to accounting manipulations by recognizing off-book revenues, such as: (a) Recording of pre-booked advertising contracts were made twice, even though they were already recognized as pre-booked revenues; (b) Assigning overvalued amounts to advertising contracts as ways to inflate revenues; and, (c) Dollar values of advertising deals entered into as barter trades with other companies were recognized as legitimate sales. The barter trades were actually entered into for the purpose of making AOL’s advertising offers look lucrative by faking trade deals. Customers were given free advertisements just to make it appear that they closed advertising contract deals with AOL Time Warner. The dollar values of the barter deals amounted to as much as $30 million. This of course reflected large revenues and boosted stock prices. The SEC finally got wind of these shady advertising revenues and accounting manipulations, and the ensuing fraud investigations subsequently caused AOL Time Warner’s stock prices to drop to $8.70 per share or as much as 85% in reduction of its value on the...
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...Washinton Irving uses Tom Walker as a good person with a conciving personality Irving book ‘The Devil and Tom Walker” is about a man named Tom Walker who lives miserly with is wife.Tom into the woods and finds the devil and the size to make a deal which will use later to his death. the short story The Devil and Tom Walker presents the idea that greed religion and his values cause a great loss in a person's life. First, Tom Walker was mainly about greed. This is known thoughout the town for his greed. Another is that greed lead him to sell his soul to the devil in exchange to be a broker to make money. The auther states,”You are the usure for my money!”(183) Whem he made the deal with Tom. Making Tom Walker a greedy man. Secondly, Tom Walker...
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...Montag, has a wife named Mildred. This world, or society, is making their people self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling, and sadly, Mildred has become a victim of this change. First, Mildred comes off as self-centered or selfish due to this change. They made her this way because it seems they are made not to care about other people’s well-beings. They are made to only think of theirselves. No one really cares whether someone is or even dead anymore. One example of Mildred being self-centered or selfish would be when she was having a conversation with Guy, “Will you turn the parlor off?”,said Guy, “That’s my family.”, “Will you turn it off for a...
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...Mind wondering is a common listening problem that can result in other complications. A wondering mind not only diverts attention form the information that is being given, but it also can infer that the information is not important or relavent to the listener. The speaker can get offended or start creating a rough impression of the reader. Although, listeners can create poor impacts of themselves there is a feasible possibility that as the mind wonders the “listener” could be pseudolistening, faking listening, to show “listening.” Fake istening can cause the speaker to belive listening is occuring without it genually occuring. As a result of fake listening the speaker expects the listener to know what is being said and the listener has show...
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...Response to Questions Name Institution Date Explain how the ‘truth’ of photographic images has always been a contested idea. Cite one example from the ‘pre-digital’ era, and one from contemporary culture to illustrate your argument. The images of the photographic in the pre-digital era were taken as the proof and evidence of reality. However, today this belief might not hold because of the technology that might aid the editing of the photographic to assume content and the background preferred by the user. At the pre-digital era, no such techniques were available and the possibility of an individual faking a photographic image was beyond the imaginations of the people (Joyce, 2012, p. 35). This made people believe that the photographic images were nothing but the truth on the ground. This belief was majorly the reason that the people were made to believe on the existence of fairies. People believe that the two photographic images taken by the two girls, Iris and Alice, were the truth and were evidence of existence of before-then, mythical and tale fairies. Nevertheless, the ambiguous nature of the believed existence of fairies and the fact that it was only the two girls who had the chance to interact and photograph the fairies prompted the questions on the authenticity of the images (Alex, 2014, p. 50). There has been a contest to express and defend the truth of photographic images. In the article, Borderland Borms: Arthur Conan Doyle, Albion Daughters, and the politics...
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