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Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer-The application of psychological principles, theory, and research to the work setting. Areas of Concentration - Answer--Personnel Psychology -Human Engineering -Organizational Psychology Pioneers of I/O Psychology - Answer--Hugo Munsterberg, Jam...

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Exam 1 Questions with Verified Answers
Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer-The application of psychological
principles, theory, and research to the work setting.

Areas of Concentration - Answer--Personnel Psychology
-Human Engineering
-Organizational Psychology

Pioneers of I/O Psychology - Answer--Hugo Munsterberg, James McKeen Cattell,
Walter
Dill Scott, & Walter Van Dyke Bingham
-Scientific Management - Frederick Taylor
- First Ph.D. in I-O awarded to Lillian Gilbreth

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and title VII - Answer--Title VII specified demographic groups to
be protected from employment discrimination
-Groups being: race, color, gender, national origin, religion
-- Social Rights Act of 1964 made it so that many previously unobtainable jobs opened
to ethnic minority and women job applicants

Challenges in the 21st Century (1980's) - Answer--Technology such as task rabbits and
outsource, little stability, greater diversity, more competitive, global workplace, teams
vs. individual, nature of work more fluid, providing a service vs. manufacturing goods,
etc.

What is Science? - Answer-Approach that involves the understanding,
prediction, and control of some phenomenon of interest

Why do I-O psychologists engage in
research? - Answer-Better equip HR professionals in making
decisions in organizations
- Provide an aspect of predictability to HR
decisions

Disinterestedness. - Answer-The expectation that scientists will be objective and not
influenced by biases or prejudices

Experimental Design - Answer--RANDOM assignment of participants to conditions
• Conducted in a laboratory or the workplace
- Experimental control eliminates influences that could make results less reliable or
harder to interpret
- Used to establish causation between two variables

, Non-experimental - Answer-No unique conditions for participants
conditions:
- 2 common designs:
• Observational design: Observes and records behavior
• Survey design: questionnaire (most common)
-Also known as an observational design or survey design

Quasi-experimental - Answer-NON-RANDOM assignment of participants to conditions

Qualitative methods - Answer--Include procedures like observation, interview,
case study, & analysis of written documents
- Generally produce flow diagrams & narrative
descriptions of events/processes

Quantitative methods - Answer--Rely on tests, rating scales, and physiological
measures
- Yield numerical results

Triangulation - Answer-Qualitative and Quantitative methods are not mutually exclusive;
examining both types of research at once is called

Generalizability - Answer--can be defined as the extension of research findings and
conclusions from a study conducted on a sample population to the population at large.
• The more areas a study includes, the greater
its generalizability
• Every time a compromise is made, the
generalizability of results is reduced
-Generalizability theory:
• Simultaneously considers all types of error
in reliability estimates

Frequency Distribution - Answer-- Horizontal axis = Scores running low to high
- Vertical axis = Indicates frequency of occurrence

Inferential Statistics - Answer-- Aid in testing hypotheses & making inferences from
sample data to a larger sample/population
-Include t-test, F-test, chi-square test

Reliability - Answer--Consistency or stability of a measure

- Test-retest reliability
• Calculated by correlating measurements
taken at Time 1 with measurements taken at
Time 2
-Equivalent forms reliability

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