Intro to IO Psych
Well-Being & Work
Theories
Workplace Diversity
WILDCARD:)
100

______ psychology focuses on the personnel side (job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, etc.)

What is Industrial Psych?

100

Exhaustion, increased mental distance, negativity/cynicism, and reduced efficacy are characteristics of ______.

What is burnout?

100

This theory suggests job satisfaction is a function of the match between one’s personality and the demands of their job.

What is person-environment fit theory?

100

This age group is working more than they ever have.

What is 65+?

100

A shared belief among team members that enables for interpersonal risk-taking without fear of punishment or humiliation.

What is psychological safety?

200

_______ focuses on the social/psychological context of the workplace (employee attitudes, worker health/safety, motivation, teamwork and leadership, etc.)

What is Organizational Psych?

200

Job satisfaction is a combination of _______, ________, and affective factors.

What are cognitive & behavioral?

200

According to this theory, job satisfaction depends on an individual’s ability to manage their own behavior and emotions in the workplace.

What is self-regulation theory?

200

The unconscious attitudes and stereotypes that influence our understanding, actions, and decisions, often in a way that leads to unintentional discrimination against marginalized groups.

What is implicit bias?

200

These are the four primary sectors where an IO psychologist may work.

What are academia, industry, government, and consulting?

300

This woman was the first to earn a doctorate in IO psychology.

Who is Lillian Gilbreth?

300

These are the 3 main categories of job strains due to stressors.

What are physiological, psychological, and behavioral?

300

According to team composition theory, these are the ABCs of teamwork.

What are affective states, behavioral processes, and cognitive states?

300

This theory explains people's tendency to be attracted to and work more effectively with similar others.

What is similarity-attraction theory?

300

When one does not know what their job requires of them or how to do it?

What is role ambiguity?

400

This part of the US government helped to bring IO psychology into the mainstream.

What is the military?

400

______ is the most proximal predictor of job strain and illness in the person-environment fit model.

What is subjective P-E fit?

400

During this critical stage in team development, clashes in personalities and work habits emerge as team members vie for positions within a team.

What is the storming stage?

400

This states that prejudice can be reduced through increased exposure to alternative perspectives when collaborating with colleagues.

What is contact hypothesis?

400

When a group makes more extreme decisions than the average of individual decisions.

What is group polarization?

500

Phenomenon where individuals change their behavior when they know they’re being observed, usually increasing productivity/performance.

What is the Hawthorne effect?

500

These job characteristics feed into the meaningfulness of work and internal work motivation.

What are skill variety, task identity, and task significance?

500

Job characteristics theory posits this moderator reflects the intrinsic desire for personal and professional development, learning, and accomplishment through work.

What is Growth Need Strength?

500

This model suggests both intraorganizational processes and social construction of differences feed into this problem.

What is intergenerational conflict?

500

This concept is related to perception of fairness in performance evaluation procedures & resource distribution within the workplace.

What is organizational justice?

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