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COGNITIVE ABILITY, JOB KNOWLEDGE, AND STEREOTYPE THREAT: WHEN DOES ADVERSE IMPACT RESULT?

PALUMBO, MARK V.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1187103730

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Wright State University, Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD.
This research compared the efficacy of a cognitive ability test and two types of job knowledge tests for predicting job performance. Further, I examined job knowledge as a mechanism through which cognitive ability affects performance. Finally, I examined both types of tests relative to specific propositions from stereotype threat theory. Specifically, I examined the propositions that perceptions of the tests may cause mean score differences between Blacks and Whites and compared the effects of test perceptions relative to both test types. Results demonstrated that job knowledge accounted for significantly more variance in task performance than cognitive ability. Furthermore, job knowledge completely mediated the effects of cognitive ability on performance. However, stereotype threat theory’s proposed test perceptions failed to account for mean test score differences between the two groups. Rather, Blacks’ misperceptions relative to what each test was designed to measure was found to be detrimental for test performance. Also, regardless of what the test was designed to measure, Blacks still perceived both types of tests as (stereotype) threatening.
DEBRA STEELE-JOHNSON (Advisor)
140 p.
Psychology, Industrial
PREDICTING PERFORMANCE; COGNITIVE ABILITY; JOB KNOWLEDGE; STEREOTYPE THREAT

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  • PALUMBO, M. V. (2007). COGNITIVE ABILITY, JOB KNOWLEDGE, AND STEREOTYPE THREAT: WHEN DOES ADVERSE IMPACT RESULT? [Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1187103730

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • PALUMBO, MARK. COGNITIVE ABILITY, JOB KNOWLEDGE, AND STEREOTYPE THREAT: WHEN DOES ADVERSE IMPACT RESULT? 2007. Wright State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1187103730.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • PALUMBO, MARK. "COGNITIVE ABILITY, JOB KNOWLEDGE, AND STEREOTYPE THREAT: WHEN DOES ADVERSE IMPACT RESULT?" Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1187103730

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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