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INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM (CH. 1-5) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONALPSYCHOLOGY EXAM (CH. 1-5)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer-the application of psychological
principles and theories to the workplace
Industrial side - Answer-The more "technical" side of I/O, involving job analysis, training,
selection, and performance measurement
Organizational side - Answer-The "softer" side of I/O, involving motivation, work
attitudes, leadership, and organizational development
SIOP - Answer-The professional association for I/O psychology
Scientist-Practitioner Model - Answer-The method that I/O Psychologists use to both
generate and consume knowledge
Walter Dill Scott - Answer-Published the Theory of Advertising in 1903
The Theory of Advertising - Answer-What Walter Dill Scott published in 1903
Hugo Munsterberg - Answer-Wrote Psychology and Industrial Efficiency in 1913
Bingham and Scott - Answer-The two people who developed the performance rating
system for the military
Yerkes - Answer-The person who led the development of the Army Alpha and Beta
Mental Ability Tests
Army Alpha and Beta Mental Ability Tests - Answer-Tests developed by Yerkes that
helped the military select and classify army personnel, which later became the prototype
for group-administered tests despite being criticized for being too culture-dependent and
less about actual mental ability
Bruce Moore - Answer-The person who received the first PhD in I/O Psychology from
Carnegie Tech who later became the first president of the I/O Psychology section of the
APA
Section 14 - Answer-The section (#) of the APA devoted specifically to I/O Psychology
Lily Gilbreth - Answer-"The first lady of Management"
, Hawthorne Studies - Answer-First big case study in I/O Psychology that studied the
impact of illumination in working environment on productivity. Concluded that
productivity increased due to interpersonal factor of employees being paid attention to
vs. the lighting itself. Emergence of the "O" side of I/O Psychology
Generational Differences - Answer-The perceived and proven differences between
individuals of different generations across dimensions such as individual vs collectivist
Stereotyping - Answer-The act of making assumptions about people based on averages
of their demographic
Science - Answer-The process for generating a body of knowledge, a logic of inquiry
Theory Building - Answer-The process of describing, explaining, and predicting
phenomena to help develop a hypothesis and predict a specific research question
Parsimony - Answer-The word that describes the simplicity of a good theory
Precision - Answer-The word that describes how a good theory is specific and accurate
Testability - Answer-The word that describes how a good theory is verifiable by
experimentation
Usefulness - Answer-The word that describes how a good theory is practical
Generability - Answer-The word that describes how a good theory stimulates further
research
Induction - Answer-The process of moving from data to theory, in which data is
collected and then analyzed to produce a theory
Deduction - Answer-The process of moving from theory to data, in which we start with a
theory, collect data to verify it, and then revise our theory as needed
Cyclical Inductive-Deductive Model of Research - Answer-A combination of Induction
and Deduction, the best approach for generating theories
Causal inferences - Answer-The major goal of I/O Psychology is to draw these, which
are the causal relationship between two variables
Internal Validity - Answer-The idea that X equals Y, we increase this in studies by
controlling for extraneous variables that could alter results
External Validity - Answer-How generalizable is our theory to other places/ time/
people? Increasing this decreases internal validity and vice versa
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