INDUSTRIAL PSYCH QUIZ 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
industrial-organizational psychology
the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in
workplaces
society for industrial and organizational psychology
An association to which many I-O psychologists both practitioners and researchers
belong designated as Division 14 of the American psychological association.
personnel psychology
a subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection,
placement, training, appraisal, and development. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 499)
human resources management
all the activities involved in determining an organizations human resources needs, as
well as acquiring, training, and compensating people to fill those needs
scientist-practitioner model
a model for the training of clinical psychologists, which teaches research and clinical
skills in an integrated manner
The industrial-organizational psychologist
TIP
telecommuting
employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or
modem
, virtual team
a team made up of members who are geographically or organizationally dispersed,
rarely meet face to face, and do their work using advanced information technologies
Stanford-Binet test
Intelligence Quotient test developed by Lewis Terman for American school children,
based on Binet's test and comparing mental age with chronological age.
scientific management
a management theory using efficiency experts to examine each work operations and
find ways to minimize the time needed to complete it
time and motion studies
studies that broke every action down into its constituent parts, timed those movements
with a stopwatch, and developed new and more efficient movements what would reduce
fatigue and increase productivity
revery obsession
Australian Psychologist Elton Mayo proposed that this mental state resulted from the
mind-numbing, repetitive and difficult work that characterized U.S. factories in the early
20th century, causing factory workers to be unhappy, prone to resist management
attempts to increase productivity and sympathetic to labor unions.
Hawthorne studies
a series of studies conducted by Elton Mayo and his Harvard colleagues at the Western
Electric Company's Hawthorne plant in Illinois; tested workers' productivity under
different levels of lighting; tested whether temperature, humidity, etc. would effect
productivity; the experiments were considered a total failure after unexpected results
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
industrial-organizational psychology
the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in
workplaces
society for industrial and organizational psychology
An association to which many I-O psychologists both practitioners and researchers
belong designated as Division 14 of the American psychological association.
personnel psychology
a subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection,
placement, training, appraisal, and development. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 499)
human resources management
all the activities involved in determining an organizations human resources needs, as
well as acquiring, training, and compensating people to fill those needs
scientist-practitioner model
a model for the training of clinical psychologists, which teaches research and clinical
skills in an integrated manner
The industrial-organizational psychologist
TIP
telecommuting
employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or
modem
, virtual team
a team made up of members who are geographically or organizationally dispersed,
rarely meet face to face, and do their work using advanced information technologies
Stanford-Binet test
Intelligence Quotient test developed by Lewis Terman for American school children,
based on Binet's test and comparing mental age with chronological age.
scientific management
a management theory using efficiency experts to examine each work operations and
find ways to minimize the time needed to complete it
time and motion studies
studies that broke every action down into its constituent parts, timed those movements
with a stopwatch, and developed new and more efficient movements what would reduce
fatigue and increase productivity
revery obsession
Australian Psychologist Elton Mayo proposed that this mental state resulted from the
mind-numbing, repetitive and difficult work that characterized U.S. factories in the early
20th century, causing factory workers to be unhappy, prone to resist management
attempts to increase productivity and sympathetic to labor unions.
Hawthorne studies
a series of studies conducted by Elton Mayo and his Harvard colleagues at the Western
Electric Company's Hawthorne plant in Illinois; tested workers' productivity under
different levels of lighting; tested whether temperature, humidity, etc. would effect
productivity; the experiments were considered a total failure after unexpected results
