INDUSTRIAL PSYCH EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE 2024/2025
Industrial Approach
focuses on determining the competencies needed to perform a job, staffing the
organization with employees who have those competencies, and increasing those
competencies through training
Organizational approach
Merchandising conglomerates are corporations that combine several retailing forms
under central ownership
personnel psychology
a subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection,
placement, training, appraisal, and development
Ergonomics
The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices,
machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently.
Hypothesis
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
literature review
the process of reading all the available published material about a research site and/or
research issues, usually done before fieldwork begins
Journals
, scientific periodicals or magazines in which scientists publish their experimental work,
findings, or conclusions
trade magazines
magazines published for people who work in a particular industry or business
magazines
to underline
external validity
an attribute of an experiment in which variables have been defined in a normal, typical,
or realistic way
generalizibility
the extent to which we can claim our findings inform us about a group larger than the
one we studied
field research
research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory
informed consent
An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to
choose whether they wish to participate.
Experiments
a technique that tests predicted relationships among variables in a controlled
environment
experimental group
In an experiment, the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version of
the independent variable.
UPDATE 2024/2025
Industrial Approach
focuses on determining the competencies needed to perform a job, staffing the
organization with employees who have those competencies, and increasing those
competencies through training
Organizational approach
Merchandising conglomerates are corporations that combine several retailing forms
under central ownership
personnel psychology
a subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection,
placement, training, appraisal, and development
Ergonomics
The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices,
machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently.
Hypothesis
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
literature review
the process of reading all the available published material about a research site and/or
research issues, usually done before fieldwork begins
Journals
, scientific periodicals or magazines in which scientists publish their experimental work,
findings, or conclusions
trade magazines
magazines published for people who work in a particular industry or business
magazines
to underline
external validity
an attribute of an experiment in which variables have been defined in a normal, typical,
or realistic way
generalizibility
the extent to which we can claim our findings inform us about a group larger than the
one we studied
field research
research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory
informed consent
An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to
choose whether they wish to participate.
Experiments
a technique that tests predicted relationships among variables in a controlled
environment
experimental group
In an experiment, the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version of
the independent variable.
