Industrial Psychology CSU 440 Exam
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What is I/O Psychology? - ✔✔The scientific study of the workplace, study of the mind
and behavior related to work
Industrial Psychology - ✔✔The assessment, measurement, and selection of people into
jobs, methods for training them, and methods for assessing performance and providing
feedback.
wundt - ✔✔-established lab in Leipzig Germany
-Trained hugo munsterberg and James McKeen Cattell
Munsterberg - ✔✔-Director of Harvard PSY lab
-One of the first to measure abilities in workers and link it to performance
-wrote first I/O psychology textbook
-Conducted research on industrial efficiency
Cattell - ✔✔-believed individual differences matter
-Recognized individual differences as a way to predict performance
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, Scott & Bingham - ✔✔-worked at carnegie institute
-Developed methods for selecting and training sales personnel
-Volunteered to assist the US army in WWI
-Standford-Binet intelligence test to assess the recruits; army alpha, army beta
Gilbreth - ✔✔first Phd in I/O Psychology
-Applied scientific management principles of Frederick Winslow Taylor
-Sought to increase industrial efficiency
Scientific Management - ✔✔-conducted time and motion studies
-"one best way to perform a task/job
Hawthorne Studies - ✔✔-aimed to improve productivity
-changed aspects of the work environment to achieve best productivity
-found that worker attitudes and emotions matter!
1892 - ✔✔APA founded
1917 - ✔✔Journal of applied psychology started
extraneous variable - ✔✔test theories and minimize confounds
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is I/O Psychology? - ✔✔The scientific study of the workplace, study of the mind
and behavior related to work
Industrial Psychology - ✔✔The assessment, measurement, and selection of people into
jobs, methods for training them, and methods for assessing performance and providing
feedback.
wundt - ✔✔-established lab in Leipzig Germany
-Trained hugo munsterberg and James McKeen Cattell
Munsterberg - ✔✔-Director of Harvard PSY lab
-One of the first to measure abilities in workers and link it to performance
-wrote first I/O psychology textbook
-Conducted research on industrial efficiency
Cattell - ✔✔-believed individual differences matter
-Recognized individual differences as a way to predict performance
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, Scott & Bingham - ✔✔-worked at carnegie institute
-Developed methods for selecting and training sales personnel
-Volunteered to assist the US army in WWI
-Standford-Binet intelligence test to assess the recruits; army alpha, army beta
Gilbreth - ✔✔first Phd in I/O Psychology
-Applied scientific management principles of Frederick Winslow Taylor
-Sought to increase industrial efficiency
Scientific Management - ✔✔-conducted time and motion studies
-"one best way to perform a task/job
Hawthorne Studies - ✔✔-aimed to improve productivity
-changed aspects of the work environment to achieve best productivity
-found that worker attitudes and emotions matter!
1892 - ✔✔APA founded
1917 - ✔✔Journal of applied psychology started
extraneous variable - ✔✔test theories and minimize confounds
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
