Industrial Psychology Chapters 1, 2, 3
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Importance of IO psychology - ✔✔studies the importance of work in peoples lives
What is IO - ✔✔application of psychological principles, theory and research to the work
setting
Fields of IO psychology - ✔✔personnel psychology, organizational psychology, human
(factors) engineering psychology
Personnel psychology (human resources) - ✔✔fitting the person to the job; recruiting,
hiring, training, performance evaluation, promotion, firing
Organizational Psychology - ✔✔combines social psychology and human behavior,
human emotion and motivation at the workplace
Human Factors Engineering - ✔✔person-environment factors, fitting the job
environment to the person
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, History: 1917 - ✔✔WWI, one million plus soldiers joined the army alpha (literacy test)
and beta (nonliteracy test)
History: 1930 - ✔✔Hawthorne studies: created interest in worker emotion and
motivation
History: 1941 - ✔✔human factors applied to cockpit design -- assessment center for
spies
History: 1964 - ✔✔civil rights act title VII - closer look at employment tests and new
types
History: 1982 - ✔✔SIOP founded (society for industrial and organizational psychology)
What is science? - ✔✔approach that involves the understanding, prediction, and control
some phenomenon of interest
Science is a logical approach to investigation - ✔✔because it is based on hypothesis
theory or basic interest
Scientists set out to disprove theories - ✔✔scientists to not set out to prove theories, the
goal is to eliminate all plausible explanations except one
science depends on data - ✔✔that is found in a lab or field
scientists are objective - ✔✔because they are not biased or prejudice
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Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
Importance of IO psychology - ✔✔studies the importance of work in peoples lives
What is IO - ✔✔application of psychological principles, theory and research to the work
setting
Fields of IO psychology - ✔✔personnel psychology, organizational psychology, human
(factors) engineering psychology
Personnel psychology (human resources) - ✔✔fitting the person to the job; recruiting,
hiring, training, performance evaluation, promotion, firing
Organizational Psychology - ✔✔combines social psychology and human behavior,
human emotion and motivation at the workplace
Human Factors Engineering - ✔✔person-environment factors, fitting the job
environment to the person
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, History: 1917 - ✔✔WWI, one million plus soldiers joined the army alpha (literacy test)
and beta (nonliteracy test)
History: 1930 - ✔✔Hawthorne studies: created interest in worker emotion and
motivation
History: 1941 - ✔✔human factors applied to cockpit design -- assessment center for
spies
History: 1964 - ✔✔civil rights act title VII - closer look at employment tests and new
types
History: 1982 - ✔✔SIOP founded (society for industrial and organizational psychology)
What is science? - ✔✔approach that involves the understanding, prediction, and control
some phenomenon of interest
Science is a logical approach to investigation - ✔✔because it is based on hypothesis
theory or basic interest
Scientists set out to disprove theories - ✔✔scientists to not set out to prove theories, the
goal is to eliminate all plausible explanations except one
science depends on data - ✔✔that is found in a lab or field
scientists are objective - ✔✔because they are not biased or prejudice
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