PSY 272 Exam (Chapters 1-3) 2025
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industrial-organizational psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The application of prohyological
principles, and research to the work setting
Domains of I/O psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔cognition (thoughts), affect (feelings), and
behavior
units of analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔It can be individuals, groups/teams and organizations
work is a source of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔identity and self-esteem, structure, relationships
outside family, autonomy
Personnel Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔using individual differences to predicts maintains
and increase work performance and satisfaction
organizational psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔addresses motivational and emotional side of
work; the extent to which characteristics of people match characteristics of work
Human Engineering - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the study of the capacities and limitations of
humans with respect to a particular environment
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔father of psychology, founded first lab dedicated to
psych research-Germany 1876
, Hugo Munsterberg - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔student of wundt. director of Psych at Harvard. 1st
person to measure worker's abilities and tie them to performance.
James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Individual differences that wundt
thought were error
Walter Dill Scott & Walter Van Dyke Bingham - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Carnegie. Institute.
developed selection methods - Army alpha
Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1st PhD in Industrial psych. 1st lady of
engineering and management, taught at Purdue 25 years
time and motion studies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Lillian Gilbreth, filming and changing specific
movements, used to increase work efficiency
scientific management (Taylorism) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔"one best method" for jobs, $ as the
only incentive
Criticisms of Scientific Management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔permanent performance pressure,
inhumane conditions, low wages
Elton Mayo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Hawthorne Experiment 1928, founder of the human
relations movement, light conditions
Human Relations movement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔proposed that better human relations
could increase worker productivity-workers attitude is important
Henry Murray - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔developed first us.assessment center OSS, simulations for
picking spies
With 100% Correct Answers
industrial-organizational psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The application of prohyological
principles, and research to the work setting
Domains of I/O psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔cognition (thoughts), affect (feelings), and
behavior
units of analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔It can be individuals, groups/teams and organizations
work is a source of - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔identity and self-esteem, structure, relationships
outside family, autonomy
Personnel Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔using individual differences to predicts maintains
and increase work performance and satisfaction
organizational psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔addresses motivational and emotional side of
work; the extent to which characteristics of people match characteristics of work
Human Engineering - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the study of the capacities and limitations of
humans with respect to a particular environment
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔father of psychology, founded first lab dedicated to
psych research-Germany 1876
, Hugo Munsterberg - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔student of wundt. director of Psych at Harvard. 1st
person to measure worker's abilities and tie them to performance.
James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Individual differences that wundt
thought were error
Walter Dill Scott & Walter Van Dyke Bingham - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Carnegie. Institute.
developed selection methods - Army alpha
Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1st PhD in Industrial psych. 1st lady of
engineering and management, taught at Purdue 25 years
time and motion studies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Lillian Gilbreth, filming and changing specific
movements, used to increase work efficiency
scientific management (Taylorism) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔"one best method" for jobs, $ as the
only incentive
Criticisms of Scientific Management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔permanent performance pressure,
inhumane conditions, low wages
Elton Mayo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Hawthorne Experiment 1928, founder of the human
relations movement, light conditions
Human Relations movement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔proposed that better human relations
could increase worker productivity-workers attitude is important
Henry Murray - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔developed first us.assessment center OSS, simulations for
picking spies
