Personnel Psychology IOP3702 Questions and
Answers Revised Analyzed and Graded A+
Categorical/qualitative vs continuous/quantitative variables - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
differences in terms of type (sex, hair color, etc), differences in terms of frequency, amount, or
degree
Changes in current work environments - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -managers are no longer to
boss you around but to motivate you etc...
Cognitive vs affective tests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Cognitive test measure your cognitive
abilities, affective test deals with feelings, opinion, not really a wrong answer since it's your
opinion.
Composite vs multiple criteria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Composite criteria looking at a
number of different criteria and turning into one number. Multiple criteria you are keeping the
criteria separate and not adding them together.
Contributions of early I-O psychology figures (Francis Galton, Walter Dill Scott): - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Francis Galton in psychometrics: lexical hypothesis, questionnaire, In statistics:
first to formulate variance/standard deviation, correlation/regression, regression toward the
mean, Differential psychology (the study of individual differences) Walter Dill Scott First
applied psychology to advertising, Then moved to applying it to business, Influencing Men in
Business, Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, Applied personnel procedures to the Army
during World War I
• Early I-O research, consulting firms, and organizations:
, Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -A evaluative standard that can be used to measure a
person's performance, attitudes, motivation, etc.
Different classifications of tests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Content: cognitive vs affective
Administration: group administration or single administration
Scoring: can be objective (means that there is a right or wrong answer) or non objective (means
you have to interpret what you are saying)
Different types of primary research: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -experiment (typical lab
experiment), quasi-experiment, questionnaires, and observations.
Different types of variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio); which types we usually get -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -usually use nominal and interval. Nominal: These are basically
grouping variables, Ordinal: Allows distinction of categories and indications of magnitude,
Interval: Allows distinctions of category, rank order, AND distance between values. Ratio: These
are basically the same as interval scales, except they include a meaningful, absolute zero point
that indicates the complete absence of a property
Dynamic vs static dimensionality - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Dynamic dimensionality how
job performance changes over time and how your predictors will change over time. Static
dimensionality you can look at different dimensions of job performance.
Factors for criteria evaluation (discriminability) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -whether or not it
can distinguish between high performers and low performers or people that are high on
something or low on something.
Answers Revised Analyzed and Graded A+
Categorical/qualitative vs continuous/quantitative variables - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -
differences in terms of type (sex, hair color, etc), differences in terms of frequency, amount, or
degree
Changes in current work environments - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -managers are no longer to
boss you around but to motivate you etc...
Cognitive vs affective tests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Cognitive test measure your cognitive
abilities, affective test deals with feelings, opinion, not really a wrong answer since it's your
opinion.
Composite vs multiple criteria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Composite criteria looking at a
number of different criteria and turning into one number. Multiple criteria you are keeping the
criteria separate and not adding them together.
Contributions of early I-O psychology figures (Francis Galton, Walter Dill Scott): - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Francis Galton in psychometrics: lexical hypothesis, questionnaire, In statistics:
first to formulate variance/standard deviation, correlation/regression, regression toward the
mean, Differential psychology (the study of individual differences) Walter Dill Scott First
applied psychology to advertising, Then moved to applying it to business, Influencing Men in
Business, Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, Applied personnel procedures to the Army
during World War I
• Early I-O research, consulting firms, and organizations:
, Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -A evaluative standard that can be used to measure a
person's performance, attitudes, motivation, etc.
Different classifications of tests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Content: cognitive vs affective
Administration: group administration or single administration
Scoring: can be objective (means that there is a right or wrong answer) or non objective (means
you have to interpret what you are saying)
Different types of primary research: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -experiment (typical lab
experiment), quasi-experiment, questionnaires, and observations.
Different types of variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio); which types we usually get -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -usually use nominal and interval. Nominal: These are basically
grouping variables, Ordinal: Allows distinction of categories and indications of magnitude,
Interval: Allows distinctions of category, rank order, AND distance between values. Ratio: These
are basically the same as interval scales, except they include a meaningful, absolute zero point
that indicates the complete absence of a property
Dynamic vs static dimensionality - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Dynamic dimensionality how
job performance changes over time and how your predictors will change over time. Static
dimensionality you can look at different dimensions of job performance.
Factors for criteria evaluation (discriminability) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -whether or not it
can distinguish between high performers and low performers or people that are high on
something or low on something.
