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General and Specific Cognitive and Psychomotor Abilities in Personnel Selection: The Prediction of Training and Job Performance
Author(s) -
Carretta Thomas R.,
Ree Malcolm James
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2389.00152
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , psychology , cognition , selection (genetic algorithm) , applied psychology , personnel selection , developmental psychology , statistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , neuroscience , mathematics
Use of ability tests in personnel selection is addressed beginning with methodological issues. Studies are reviewed that show that almost all the validity of cognitive tests comes from general cognitive ability, g . Psychomotor ability is reviewed and found to have both higher‐ and lower‐order factors, contrary to long‐held beliefs. It was found that the higher‐order general psychomotor factor was one source of validity of psychomotor tests. Additionally, psychomotor tests were shown to contain measures of g and to increment the validity of g ‐based measures very little.