Industrial Psychology ALL Exams Question/Answers
Graded A+ 2025/2026
Organizational psychology - Field of psychology that combines research from social
psychology and organizational behavior and addresses the emotional and motivational
side of work.
Human engineering or human factors psychology - The study of the capacities and
limitations of humans with respect to a particular environment.
Scientist-practitioner model - A model that uses scientific tools and research in the
practice of I-O psychology.
Welfare-to-work program - Program that requires individuals to work in return for
government subsidies.
Telecommunicating - Accomplishing work tasks from a distant location using electronic
communication media.
Virtual team - team that has widely dispersed members working together toward a
common goal and linked through computers and other technology
Wilhelm Wundt - founded one of the first psychological laboratories in 1876 in Leipzig,
Germany.
Stanford-Binet Test - A well-known intelligence test designed for testing one individual
at a time.
Scientific Management - A movement based on principles developed by Frederick W.
Taylor, who suggested that there was one best and most efficient way to perform
various jobs.
Time and Motion Studies - Studies that broke every action down into its constituent
parts, timed those movements with a stopwatch, and developed new and more efficient
movements that would reduce fatigue and increase productivity.
Revery obession - Australian psychologist Elton Mayo proposed that this mental state
resulted from the mind-numbing, repetitive, and difficult work that characterized U.S.
factories in the early 20th century, causing factory workers to be unhappy, prone to
resist management attempts to increase productivity, and sympathetic to labor unions.
Hawthorne Studies - Research done at the Illinois plant of the Western Electric
Company that began as attempts to increase productivity by manipulating lighting, rest
breaks, and work hours. This research showed the important role that workers' attitudes
played in productivity.
, Human Relations Movement - The results of the Hawthorne Studies ushered in this
movement, which focused on work attitudes and the newly discovered emotional world
of the worker.
Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 - Federal legislation that prohibits employment
discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, which define
what are known as protected groups.
Culture - A system in which individuals share meanings and common ways of viewing
events and objects
Expatriate - Manager or professional assigned to work in a location outside of his or her
home country.
Horizontal culture - A culture that minimizes distances between individuals.
Vertical culture - A culture that accepts and depends upon distances between
individuals.
Science - Approach that involves the understanding, prediction, and control of some
phenomenon of interest
Hypthesis - Prediction about relationship(s) among variables of interest
Disinterestedness - Characteristic of scientists, who should be objective and
uninfluenced by biases or prejudices when conducting research
Expert witness - Witness in a lawsuit who is permitted to voice opinions about
organizational practices
Research Design - Provides the overall structure or architecture for the research study;
allows investigators to conduct scientific research on a phenomenon of interest
Experimental design - Participants are randomly assigned to different conditions
Quasi-experimental design - Participants are assigned to different conditions, but
random assignment to conditions is not possible.
Non-experimental design - Does not include any "treatment" or assignment to different
conditions
Observational design - The researcher observes employee behavior and systematically
records what is observed.
Graded A+ 2025/2026
Organizational psychology - Field of psychology that combines research from social
psychology and organizational behavior and addresses the emotional and motivational
side of work.
Human engineering or human factors psychology - The study of the capacities and
limitations of humans with respect to a particular environment.
Scientist-practitioner model - A model that uses scientific tools and research in the
practice of I-O psychology.
Welfare-to-work program - Program that requires individuals to work in return for
government subsidies.
Telecommunicating - Accomplishing work tasks from a distant location using electronic
communication media.
Virtual team - team that has widely dispersed members working together toward a
common goal and linked through computers and other technology
Wilhelm Wundt - founded one of the first psychological laboratories in 1876 in Leipzig,
Germany.
Stanford-Binet Test - A well-known intelligence test designed for testing one individual
at a time.
Scientific Management - A movement based on principles developed by Frederick W.
Taylor, who suggested that there was one best and most efficient way to perform
various jobs.
Time and Motion Studies - Studies that broke every action down into its constituent
parts, timed those movements with a stopwatch, and developed new and more efficient
movements that would reduce fatigue and increase productivity.
Revery obession - Australian psychologist Elton Mayo proposed that this mental state
resulted from the mind-numbing, repetitive, and difficult work that characterized U.S.
factories in the early 20th century, causing factory workers to be unhappy, prone to
resist management attempts to increase productivity, and sympathetic to labor unions.
Hawthorne Studies - Research done at the Illinois plant of the Western Electric
Company that began as attempts to increase productivity by manipulating lighting, rest
breaks, and work hours. This research showed the important role that workers' attitudes
played in productivity.
, Human Relations Movement - The results of the Hawthorne Studies ushered in this
movement, which focused on work attitudes and the newly discovered emotional world
of the worker.
Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 - Federal legislation that prohibits employment
discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, which define
what are known as protected groups.
Culture - A system in which individuals share meanings and common ways of viewing
events and objects
Expatriate - Manager or professional assigned to work in a location outside of his or her
home country.
Horizontal culture - A culture that minimizes distances between individuals.
Vertical culture - A culture that accepts and depends upon distances between
individuals.
Science - Approach that involves the understanding, prediction, and control of some
phenomenon of interest
Hypthesis - Prediction about relationship(s) among variables of interest
Disinterestedness - Characteristic of scientists, who should be objective and
uninfluenced by biases or prejudices when conducting research
Expert witness - Witness in a lawsuit who is permitted to voice opinions about
organizational practices
Research Design - Provides the overall structure or architecture for the research study;
allows investigators to conduct scientific research on a phenomenon of interest
Experimental design - Participants are randomly assigned to different conditions
Quasi-experimental design - Participants are assigned to different conditions, but
random assignment to conditions is not possible.
Non-experimental design - Does not include any "treatment" or assignment to different
conditions
Observational design - The researcher observes employee behavior and systematically
records what is observed.
