multiple hurdle model of selection

in personnel selection, a model in which applicants for a job are required to pass each of a series of selection instruments (i.e., tests and inventories) before they are evaluated on the next instrument. The number of applicants is therefore reduced at each “hurdle.” See also banding.

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December 18th 2024

perceptual segregation

the separation of one part of a perceptual field from the whole by physical boundaries or attention-diverting methods. See figure–ground.