What is I/O Psychology?
A model that uses scientific tools and research in the practice of I-O psychology.
What is a scientist–practitioner model?
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.
What is time and motion studies?
This individual has reviewed research designs in I-O psychology and devised a system of classification for distinguishing among the typical designs. He breaks designs down into three basic types: experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental.
Who is Paul Spector?
The accuracy of inferences made based on test or performance data; also addresses whether a measure accurately and completely represents what was intended to be measured.
What is validity?
He postulated three direct determinants of job performance: declarative knowledge (DK), procedural knowledge and skill (PKS), and motivation (M).
Who is John Campbell?
The single best resource for anyone interested in I-O psychology.
What is Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology?
Research done at the 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.
What is the Hawthorne studies?
Research strategy in which participants are asked to complete a questionnaire or survey.
What is a survey design?
Dissimilarities between or among two or more people.
What are individual differences?
Model that gathers enough high-quality information about candidates to predict the likelihood of their success on the varied demands of the job.
What is comprehensive staffing model?
Field of psychology that addresses issues such as recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, promotion, transfer, and termination.
What is personnel psychology?
Tendency for researchers to develop theories relevant to U.S. situations, with less concern given to their applicability in other countries.
What is “West versus the Rest” mentality?
This type of data relies on tests, rating scales, questionnaires, and physiological measures and yield numerical results.
What are quantitative methods?
The ability to learn and adapt to an environment; often used to refer to general intellectual capacity, as opposed to cognitive ability or mental ability, which often refer to more specific abilities such as memory or reasoning.
What is intelligence?
A relatively permanent change in behavior and human capabilities produced by experience and practice.
What is learning?
Combines research and ideas from social psychology and organizational behavior. It addresses the emotional and motivational side of work.
What is Organizational Psychology?
Prediction about relationship(s) among variables of interest.
What is a hypothesis?
To apply the results from one study or sample to other participants or situations.
What is generalize?
An individual’s behavioral and emotional characteristics, generally found to be stable over time and in a variety of circumstances; an individual’s habitual way of responding.
A three-step process of organizational, task, and person analysis; required to develop a systematic understanding of where training is needed, what needs to be taught or trained, and who will be trained.
What is training needs analysis?
Another name given to Engineering psychology.
What is Human Factors Psycholoyg?
Provides the overall structure or architecture for the research study; allows investigators to conduct scientific research on a phenomenon of interest.
What is a research design?
This refers to an association between variables and not a causation.
What is correlation?
Actions or behaviors relevant to the organization’s goals; measured in terms of each individual’s proficiency.
What is performance?
Inborn tendency that is thought to direct behavior.
What is instinct?