Industrial Organizational Psychology
Exam 1 Questions and Answers
personell - ANSWER-people employed in an organization. labor force
industrial= - ANSWER-personell psychology
examples of industrial psychology (more technical) - ANSWER-1. job training
2. job analysis
3. selection
4. performance management/appraisal
examples of organizational psychology (more relational) - ANSWER-1. motivation
2. work attitudes
3. leadership
4. organization structure
5. culture and processes
What is Industrial Organizational Psychology? - ANSWER-application of psychological
principles and theories in the workplace
professional association for IO psych? - ANSWER-SIOP: Society for Industrial
Organizational Psychology
internal validity - ANSWER-extent to which causal inferences can be drawn about
variables- ruling out alternative explanation
external validity - ANSWER-extent to which results can generalize to other people,
settings, time (real world applicable)
important trade off between internal and external validity= - ANSWER-control versus
generalizability
random assignment and manipulation increase ______________ validity - ANSWER-
INTERNAL, they increase control and take place in contrived settings
field experiments - ANSWER-random assignment and manipulation of IV in a naturally
occurring, real world setting
Quasi experiment - ANSWER-VERY COMMON IN IO PSYC- field experiment without
random assignment; use of intact groups
, participant observation - ANSWER-observer tries to blend in with those who are
observed
unobtrusive observation - ANSWER-observer objectively observes indidivudals without
drawing atttention to himself, but does not try to blend in
archival research - ANSWER-answering research questions using existing data : lack of
control over quality of data and minimizes time developing measures and collecting data
INCLUDES: cross-sectional data (one point in time) and longitudinal data (multiple time
periods)
surveys are - ANSWER-most frequnt used method for IO pscyhologists and can be self
administered or interviews
experience sampling methodology - ANSWER-captures momentary
attitudes/psychological states
PDA signals participant to answer a Q at predetermined time
popular to study emotionsa t work
accuracy of measurement is important so there are two major concerns: - ANSWER-
reliability and validity
reliability - ANSWER-consistency/stability of a measure
test-retest reliabilty (coefficient of stability) - ANSWER-given test at time 1 and then
same test at time 2. minimize error so that high scoreres at time 1 are also high at time
2.
parallelel forms reliability (coefficient of equivalence) - ANSWER-extent to which two
independnt forms of a test are equivalent measures of same construct
-ensures the two tests are measuring the same thing
interratar reliabilty - ANSWER-consitency between multiple rates- relevant in
performance appraisal
internal consistency reliability - ANSWER-indication of relatedness of test items
split hald and inter item reliability
split half reliability - ANSWER-split the test in half to see if one half is equivalent to other
inter item reliability(cronbachs alpha) - ANSWER-examining the correlations among all
test items to determine consistency. reliabilty should be .7 or higher
construct validity - ANSWER-extent to which a test measures the underlying construct it
was intended to measure
Exam 1 Questions and Answers
personell - ANSWER-people employed in an organization. labor force
industrial= - ANSWER-personell psychology
examples of industrial psychology (more technical) - ANSWER-1. job training
2. job analysis
3. selection
4. performance management/appraisal
examples of organizational psychology (more relational) - ANSWER-1. motivation
2. work attitudes
3. leadership
4. organization structure
5. culture and processes
What is Industrial Organizational Psychology? - ANSWER-application of psychological
principles and theories in the workplace
professional association for IO psych? - ANSWER-SIOP: Society for Industrial
Organizational Psychology
internal validity - ANSWER-extent to which causal inferences can be drawn about
variables- ruling out alternative explanation
external validity - ANSWER-extent to which results can generalize to other people,
settings, time (real world applicable)
important trade off between internal and external validity= - ANSWER-control versus
generalizability
random assignment and manipulation increase ______________ validity - ANSWER-
INTERNAL, they increase control and take place in contrived settings
field experiments - ANSWER-random assignment and manipulation of IV in a naturally
occurring, real world setting
Quasi experiment - ANSWER-VERY COMMON IN IO PSYC- field experiment without
random assignment; use of intact groups
, participant observation - ANSWER-observer tries to blend in with those who are
observed
unobtrusive observation - ANSWER-observer objectively observes indidivudals without
drawing atttention to himself, but does not try to blend in
archival research - ANSWER-answering research questions using existing data : lack of
control over quality of data and minimizes time developing measures and collecting data
INCLUDES: cross-sectional data (one point in time) and longitudinal data (multiple time
periods)
surveys are - ANSWER-most frequnt used method for IO pscyhologists and can be self
administered or interviews
experience sampling methodology - ANSWER-captures momentary
attitudes/psychological states
PDA signals participant to answer a Q at predetermined time
popular to study emotionsa t work
accuracy of measurement is important so there are two major concerns: - ANSWER-
reliability and validity
reliability - ANSWER-consistency/stability of a measure
test-retest reliabilty (coefficient of stability) - ANSWER-given test at time 1 and then
same test at time 2. minimize error so that high scoreres at time 1 are also high at time
2.
parallelel forms reliability (coefficient of equivalence) - ANSWER-extent to which two
independnt forms of a test are equivalent measures of same construct
-ensures the two tests are measuring the same thing
interratar reliabilty - ANSWER-consitency between multiple rates- relevant in
performance appraisal
internal consistency reliability - ANSWER-indication of relatedness of test items
split hald and inter item reliability
split half reliability - ANSWER-split the test in half to see if one half is equivalent to other
inter item reliability(cronbachs alpha) - ANSWER-examining the correlations among all
test items to determine consistency. reliabilty should be .7 or higher
construct validity - ANSWER-extent to which a test measures the underlying construct it
was intended to measure
