This is the scientific study & application of mental processes & behavior to the workplace
What is I/O Psychology
100
The process of gathering, analyzing, & structuring a job’s components, characteristics, and requirements.
What is Job Analysis
100
State & local laws can exceed these rights but cannot diminish them.
What is Federal law
100
Valid, cost-effective, and minimize legal challenge.
What is effective employee selection tools
100
Test-retest, Alternate forms, Internal, Scorer
What is types of reliability
200
Recruitment, selection, performance appraisal and training.
What is Industrial (personnel) psychology topics.
200
Types of ways to collect information on a job analysis
What is Committee-based & Field-based
200
This addresses the legality of occupational decisions regarding hiring/firing, promotion, and pay determination (among others)
What is Employment Practice
200
Initial, substantive, contingent
What is the selection process
200
Correlate test scores with similar tests
Correlate scores with dissimilar tests
What is Construct Validity
300
-.2 or +.2 --> which is a stronger correlation?
What is neither.
300
The steps (in order) to conduct a job analysis.
What is:
Identify tasks performed
Write task statements
Rate task statements
Determine essential KSAOs
Select tests to tap KSAOs
300
Because some racists employers may try to make it so that their workers are not allowed to speak their native language, workers of Hispanic backgrounds are protected under which federal class?
What is Native Origin
300
Work-samples test and Assessment Centers are
What is skill tests, also called performance-simulation tests
300
"This test question seems very appropriate"
But is it!?
What is Face Validity
400
This is a characteristic of a true experiment.
What is random assignment.
400
Three methods to identify the tasks performed
What is:
Interview SMEs
Observation
Job participation
400
Though this in no way impacts job performance and shouldn't be a consideration in the workplace, it is not a federally protected class, though it may be protected at the state level.
What is sexual orientation
400
The ability to sense & perceive stimuli is tested using this.
What is a perceptual test
400
Estimates the percentage of future employees that will be successful
What is Taylor-Russell tables
500
When using a quasi-experimental design, you may wish to establish this first.
What is baseline equivalency
500
Task statements must have both of these.
What is an action and an object
500
National security, preferring military veterans, and a seniority system
What is legal exceptions to job relatedness
500
Using a person's history/background to determine selection