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Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer-The application of psychological principles, theory, and research to the work setting. Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer-An association to which many I-O psychologists, both practitioners and researchers, belong. Personnel ...

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

Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer-An association to which many
I-O psychologists, both practitioners and researchers, belong.

Personnel psychology - Answer-Field of psychology that addresses issues such as
recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, promotion, transfer, and
termination.

Human resources management (HRM) - Answer-Practices such as recruitment,
selection, retention, training, and development of people (human resources) in order to
achieve individual and organizational goals.

Organizational psychology - Answer-Field of psychology that combines research from
social psychology and organizational behavior and addresses the emotional and
motivational side of work.

Human engineering or human factors psychology - Answer-The study of the capacities
and limitations of humans with respect to a particular environment.

Scientist-practitioner model - Answer-A model that uses scientific tools and research in
the practice of I-O psychology.

Welfare-to-work program - Answer-Program that requires individuals to work in return
for government subsidies.

Telecommunicating - Answer-Accomplishing work tasks from a distant location using
electronic communication media.

Virtual team - Answer-team that has widely dispersed members working together
toward a common goal and linked through computers and other technology

Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-founded one of the first psychological laboratories in 1876 in
Leipzig, Germany.

Stanford-Binet Test - Answer-A well-known intelligence test designed for testing one
individual at a time.

, Scientific Management - Answer-A movement based on principles developed by
Frederick W. Taylor, who suggested that there was one best and most efficient way to
perform various jobs.

Time and Motion Studies - Answer-Studies that broke every action down into its
constituent parts, timed those movements with a stopwatch, and developed new and
more efficient movements that would reduce fatigue and increase productivity.

Revery obession - Answer-Australian psychologist Elton Mayo proposed that this
mental state resulted from the mind-numbing, repetitive, and difficult work that
characterized U.S. factories in the early 20th century, causing factory workers to be
unhappy, prone to resist management attempts to increase productivity, and
sympathetic to labor unions.

Hawthorne Studies - Answer-Research done at the Illinois plant of the Western Electric
Company that began as attempts to increase productivity by manipulating lighting, rest
breaks, and work hours. This research showed the important role that workers' attitudes
played in productivity.

Human Relations Movement - Answer-The results of the Hawthorne Studies ushered in
this movement, which focused on work attitudes and the newly discovered emotional
world of the worker.

Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 - Answer-Federal legislation that prohibits
employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,
which define what are known as protected groups.

Culture - Answer-A system in which individuals share meanings and common ways of
viewing events and objects

Expatriate - Answer-Manager or professional assigned to work in a location outside of
his or her home country.

Horizontal culture - Answer-A culture that minimizes distances between individuals.

Vertical culture - Answer-A culture that accepts and depends upon distances between
individuals.

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

Hypthesis - Answer-Prediction about relationship(s) among variables of interest

Disinterestedness - Answer-Characteristic of scientists, who should be objective and
uninfluenced by biases or prejudices when conducting research

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