I/O Psychology UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

I/O Psychology UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
I/O Psychology is a branch of psychology that_______ in the workplace. - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔ applies the principles of psychology


The courts have clearly ruled that a customer's satisfaction and preference ______ used to
determine if a job requirement is a BFOQ. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ religion; gender
seldom is


______ means a particular employment decision results in negative consequences more often
for members of one protected group than for another. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ four-fifths
rule


Which of the following was NOT a reason why you should understand research and
statistics? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ -answering questions and making decisions
-we encounter research everyday
-common sense is often wrong


The variable that we expect to change as a result of our manipulation is called the: ______ -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ dependent variable


Psychologists in the area of ______ concentrate on workplace design and physical fatigue. -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ human factors


A(n) _______ is an educated prediction about the answer to a research question. - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔ hypotheses


I/O Psychologists who are involved in _____ study and practice in such areas as employee
selection, job analysis, and job evaluation. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ personnel
psychology (I approach)

, Psychologists involved in _______ study leadership, job satisfaction, and employee
motivation. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ Organizational Psychology (organizational
approach)


For adverse impact to have practical significance, the minority selection ratio must be less
than ______ percent of the majority selection ratio. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ 80%



Conducting a literature review means: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ location of the
research(Lab or field)


With respect to validity considerations, what field research gains in _______, laboratory
research gains in_______. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ generalizability(external)
control (internal)


Researchers at IBM think that employees who get to chose their own working hours will be
more satisfied than those who do not. To test this idea, IBM employees at the Dallas facility
are told that they can chose their own hours. Six months later, the satisfaction level of
employees in the Dallas facility is compared to employees in the Knoxville facility. The
employees in the Knoxville facility are considered the: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ control
group


Which of the following research methods can determine a cause and effect relationship? -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ experiment


15. A supervisor offering a promotion in exchange for sex would fall under the ______ form
of sexual harassment. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ quid pro quo


16. A large research sample is nice to have; however, it may not be necessary if the
experimenter can choose a ______ sample (i.e., a sample in which every member of the
relevant population had an equal chance of being chosen to participate in the study) and
control for many of the ______ variables (i.e., other possible causes that can often explain the
relationship between two other variables). - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ random;
extraneous/intervening variables


17. Which of the following represents the strongest correlation? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔
easy