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industrial organizational psychology - Answer-the application of psych principles and theories to the workplace scientist/ practitioner model - Answer-an approach used to train IO psychologists maintaining that because IO psychologists are both generators and consumers of knowledge, training mus...

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Industrial Psychology Unit 1 Exam
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industrial organizational psychology - Answer-the application of psych principles and
theories to the workplace

scientist/ practitioner model - Answer-an approach used to train IO psychologists
maintaining that because IO psychologists are both generators and consumers of
knowledge, training must be focused on both theory and application

competencies - Answer-the skills, behaviors, and capabilities that allow employees to
preform specific functions

disseration - Answer-a unique piece of scholarly research that is usually the last hurdle
before obtaining a PhD

army alpha and army beta - Answer-Mental ability test developed by IO psychologists
during WWI used to select and classify personnel ex. Hawthorne illumination study

why do people work? - Answer-benefits, money, enjoyment

IO psych - Answer-tries to make work more efficient by making people more productive
and also makes work meaningful

Ed Schein - Answer-created the definition of organization

organization - Answer-a planned coordination of number of people, achievement of
common purpose or goal in all organizations, division of labor and function-not everyone
does the same thing, hierarchy of authority and responsibility-layers of power
ex. lafayette college

organizational socialization - Answer-behaviors that are defined as normal based on
what people do

formal vs informal aspects of organization - Answer-formal-how organization is suppose
to work, organizational plan (way things should work), informal-groups or cliques that
function within the organization (less explicit, individual needs and desires, own
agendas and plans)

IO psychology - Answer-scientific study of behavior in organizations

scientist practitioner model - Answer-take scientific study and apply it to the workplace

, goals of IO psych behavior - Answer-describe (need to know what we are dealing with),
predict (correlational procedure), understand, control (we want to be more productive so
we control a part of the behavior)

Industrial psych - Answer-concerned with human resource management- recruitment,
selection, training, tends to be quantitative and rests on a foundation of individual
differences to improve organization , find optimal fit

organization psychology - Answer-bigger topics, leadership, power and motivation of
organization, psychological research

organizational behavior - Answer-similar to organization psych but it is even broader,
interdisciplinary, economics, sociology, politics, science

practice in IO psych - Answer-about 42% work in academia, about half are in business
school and half in psych departments, the others are working in nonprofits or consulting
firms

fundamental problems or tasks organizations face - Answer-set goals, organize the
work to reach goals, recruit, select, and train human resources, create conditions to
maintain worker effectiveness(how do we keep someone doing the same job day after
day satisfied in that position), change organization in response to internal and external
pressures (we look at inputs and outputs coming into the organization, and how they
respond to the pressures), effectively deal with competitors

in psych we are interested in.. - Answer-general laws

wundt - Answer-1879- first person to set of a lab, originated scientific psychology in
Leipzig, looked at

differential psychologists - Answer-looks at individual differences ex. William Stern,
James Mckeen Cattell (1860-1944) they were interested in structures (structuralism)

context for industrial psychology (precursors) - Answer-people were interested in
progress in new ideas, wanted to improve work and organizations (progressive era),
and interested in welfare, managers were being introduced because there was an
increase in workers
there was an influence of Darwin-created evolutionary theory and looked at
functionalism

advertising and psych - Answer-people noted the importance of psychology through
advertising, the initial forays

europe - Answer-focused on fatigue and the psychological affects of it

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