Key Terms
Fields of IO Psych
Factors of Job Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction
Areas of Study in Human Factors Psych
Review Questions
100

Group of people within an organization or company given a specific task to achieve together.

What is a work team?

100

Works to improve the conditions of individuals who have faced serious disaster or who are apart of an underserved population.

What is Humanitarian Work Psychology?

100

Career advancement opportunity

What is a promotion?

100

Breaking down the elements of a task.

What is task analysis?

100

The area of I-O psychology that measures job satisfaction.

What is organizational psychology?

200

Training employees about cultural differences with the goal of improving teamwork.

What is diversity training?

200

Works with the relationships that employees develop with their organizations and vice versa.

What is Organizational Psychology?
200

Extra work requirements, insecurity of position

What are work demands? 

200

Breaking down the elements of a cognitive task.

What is cognitive task analysis?

200

The strongest predictive factor of overall job satisfaction. 

What is work content?
300

Increase of performance of individuals who are noticed, watched, and paid attention to by researchers or supervisors.

What is the Hawthorne effect?

300

Concerned with the overall well-being of both employees and organizations.

What is Occupational Health Psychology?
300

Professional relations or adequacy

What are coworkers?

300

Includes human software interactions in complex automated systems.

What is cognitive engineering?

300

The name for what occurs when a supervisor offers a work-related reward in exchange for a sexual favor.

What is quid pro quo?

400

Evaluation of an employee's success or lack of success at performing the duties of the job.

What is performance appraisal?

400

Specializes and focuses on the retention of employees and hiring practices.

What is Industrial Psychology?

400

Variety, challenge, role clarity

What is work content?

400

The study and practice of designing products, systems, or processes.

What is product design?

400

The organization responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant.

What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?

500

Assumes workers are inherently lazy and unproductive; managers must have control and use punishments.

What is Theory X?

500

Research advances and changes in technology in an effort to improve technology use by consumers. 

What is Human Factors and Engineering? 

500

Individual responsibility, control over decisions

What is autonomy?
500

Includes vigilance and monitoring, recognizing signals in noise, mental resources, and divided attention.

What is attention?

500

An example or strategy of Theory X management.

What is keystroke monitoring?