Training and Development
Selection and Placement
Organizational Effectiveness
Quality of Work Life
What are areas of I/O Psychology?
100
This research method as the most control, but often times, the lowest amount of realism
What is an experiment?
100
The most basic unit of measurement in a work analysis
What is a task or task statement?
100
The theoretical standard/construct that we seek to understand
What is the conceptual criterion?
100
Validity that assesses the full construct space of a criterion
What is content validity?
200
WW1 military test used to select literate military personnel
What is Army Alpha?
200
The variable that is manipulated and/or used to predict the outcome of interest.
What is the independent variable?
200
A taxonomy of jobs with both work and worker characteristics created by I/O Psychologists and made publicly available online
What is O*Net?
200
Examples are production, sales, and absenteeism
What are objective performance criteria?
200
Error, reliability, and validity
What are psychometric test properties?
300
Research that introduced the importance of the social context at work
What are the Hawthorne Studies?
300
The guiding principle or statement that explains relationships among phenomena
What is theory?
300
This person is knowledgeable about a particular job and can serve as an important source for a work analysis. Oftentimes, this person is a supervisor or incumbent.
What is a subject matter expert?
300
Irrelevant behaviors measured by the actual criterion
What is criterion contamination?
300
One of the most valid predictors of employee performance
What is cognitive ability?
Also results in adverse impact!
400
Often considered the Father of scientific management
Who is Frederick Taylor?
400
Tells us whether a linear relationship exists
What is a correlation?
400
An assessment of the KSAOs needed for a job
What is a person-oriented analysis?
400
Examples include adaptive and citizenship behaviors
What is contextual performance?
400
The most common method/test type used to predict who will be a successful employee, despite its weaknesses
What is the unstructured interview?
500
Principle that is the foundation of I/O psychology
What is the scientist-practitioner model?
500
When a study's findings can be applied to a larger population
What is generalizability?
500
An assessment that considers the interpersonal, cognitive, and physical resources required in a job
What is a functional job analysis?
500
Practice effects reflect changes in performance which can also be defined as this:
What are dynamic criteria?
500
A very thorough assessment method that uses many tools/tests to predict successful employees, despite its costs