Psychology in the Workplace - Final Exam Multiple Choice Study Set
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Psychology
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Psychology
Which of the following is the most frequently used method of data collection in I/O psychology?
A. case studies
B. experience sampling methodology
C. unobtrusive naturalistic observation
D. surveys - answer-D
After designing a study, the next step in the research process involves:
A. ...
Psychology in the Workplace - Final Exam
Multiple Choice Study Set
Which of the following is the most frequently used method of data collection in I/O
psychology?
A. case studies
B. experience sampling methodology
C. unobtrusive naturalistic observation
D. surveys - answer-D
After designing a study, the next step in the research process involves:
A. testing the hypothesis
B. collecting data
C. taking a nap
D. deciding who the participants will be - answer-B
Which of the following is usually NOT a primary characteristic of quasi-experiment?
A. manipulation of independent variables
B. use of intact groups
C. random assignment
D. a real world setting - answer-C
When research participants have an equally likely chance of being assigned one or
another experimental condition, the experimenter has:
A. demonstrated external validity
B. manipulated the independent variable
C. employed a random assignment
D. set up a quasi-experiment - answer-C
The area of study that involved the study of motivation, work attitudes, and the culture
of organizations is:
A. industrial psychology
B. personnel psychology
C. performance psychology
D. organizational psychology - answer-D
The type of variable that can contaminate the results of an experiment and may be an
alternative to a causal relationship is known as a(n):
A. criterion variable
B. antecedent variable
C. predictor variable
,D. extraneous variable - answer-D
If a practitioner gives a math test to a group of participants at two point in time and finds
that the high (and low) on the first test are also the high (and low) scores on the second
test, the test has demonstrated:
A. interested reliability
B. content validity
C. test-retest reliability
D. construct validity - answer-C
____ is the extent to which we can draw causal inferences about the variable in an
experiment.
A. content validity
B. extraneous validity
C. internal validity
D. external validity - answer-C
When an experiment involved college students as participants, some may raise concerns
that the results are not generalizable to employees in the "real world". This represents a
concern about:
A. external validity
B. construct validity
C. internal validity
D. content validity - answer-A
_______ identify the KSAOs deemed necessary to perform the job and describe the people
requirements.
A. job evaluations
B. elements
C. job descriptions
D. job specifications - answer-D
The ______ has/have been viewed as the birth of organizational psychology.
A. civil rights movement
B. army alpha and beta testing
C. women's movement
D. Hawthorne studies - answer-D
____ is the degree to which a test or predictor covers a representative sample of the
quality being assessed.
A. content validity
B. parallel forms reliability
C. criterion-related validity
, D. internal consistency - answer-A
Using ____ , we can ONLY conclude that the results either do or do not indicate a
relationship between variables of interest.
A. observational research methods
B. field experiments
C. laboratory experiments
D. quasi-experiments - answer-A
If we develop a new measure of employee motivation and demonstrate that the measure
is not related to dissimilar constructs, then we have demonstrated:
A. internal consistency
B. concurrent validity
C. divergent validity
D. predictive validity - answer-C
A researcher is conducting an experiment to test the effect of feedback on job
performance. the research can exercise control over extraneous variable such as
intelligence by:
A. flipping a coin
B. giving all participants the same type of feedback
C. randomly assigning participants to feedback conditions
D. using participants with the same level of job performance - answer-C
Which of the folllwing is NOT a criterion of a good theory?
A. generativity
B. parsimoniousness
C. usefulness
D. empiricism - answer-D
Which of the following are LEAST likely to be studied by an I/O psychologist whoosh
emphasis is in the subspecialty of industrial psychology?
A. employee training and development
B. performance appraisal and selection
C. work attitudes and behaviors
D. job analysis and recruitment - answer-C
During World War I, the Army Alpha and Beta Tests differed from previous intelligence
tests because they:
A. were meant to be administered to own individual at a time
B. were multiple-choice and could be administered in groups
C. rewarded employees for higher levels of intelligence
D. screened individuals for placement into different military specialties - answer-B
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