History of I/O
The first I/O psychologists were trained in __ lab
What is Wilhelm Wundt's
The two main branches of I/O psychology.
What are Industrial (I) Psychology and Organizational (O) Psychology?
What does the acronym "KSAO" stand for?
What is Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Other characteristics
In research, the variable that is manipulated or used to predict outcomes.
What is an independent variable?
Unlike KSAOs, these are the measures used to evaluate employee performance.
What are criteria?
This psychologist applied psychology to advertising and employee selection.
Who is Walter Dill Scott?
The Hawthorne Effect refers to situations in which
What is research participants behave in a certain way because they know they are part of a study
Identifying compensable factors is an important step of ______________.
what is Job Evaluation
Q: If the correlation between two variables is .90, this indicates that there is what kind of relationship?
What is strong positive association between the variables
This type of performance includes core tasks and duties outlined in a job description
What is task performance?
This engineer created the Principles of Scientific Management.
Who is Frederick Taylor?
What is the difference between a field study and laboratory study?
what is A laboratory study is conducted in heavily controlled artificial settings; a field study is conducted in real organizations with real workers in action.
A government database that provides job descriptions across occupations.
What is ONET?
A statistical test comparing the means of two groups.
What is a T-test
Using both objective and subjective measures of performance can help address this major challenge in I/O psychology.
What is the criterion problem?
Called the father of I/O psychology for applying psychology to business and law.
Who is Hugo Munsterberg?
Which area of psychology specifically focuses on improving the welfare of people in low-income nations, as opposed to just wealthy and industrialized nations?
What is humanitarian work psychology
A type of job analysis that focuses on the worker’s attributes.
What is worker-oriented job analysis?
The reliability of a test relates to its _____________, whereas the validity of a test relates to its _____________.
consistency; accuracy
The mismatch occurs when irrelevant factors are included in the evaluation of performance.
What is criterion contamination?
These tests were developed during WWI to assess the intelligence and placement of Army recruits.
What are the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests?
This model describes how I/O psychologists balance research with practical application.
What is the Scientist-Practitioner Model?
The process of comparing jobs to determine fair pay.
What is job evaluation (or benchmarking)?
A research method that combines the results of many studies to find overall trends.
What is a meta-analysis?
The mismatch when important aspects of job performance are not measured by the chosen criteria.
What is a criterion deficiency?