Industrial Psych: Exam 1 Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Fields of I/O Psychology - ✔✔Selection and Placement, Training and Development,
Performance Appraisal, Organization Development, Quality of Worklife, Ergonomics
High Context Cultures - ✔✔High: Information is implicit, Meaning of words depends
on the context, Communication is highly non-verbal
High Contact Culture - ✔✔encourage people to use their senses-to stay close to each
other and touch each other in process of communicating- as part of the communication
process
Conceptual Criteria - ✔✔Theoretical construct, abstract idea. EX: Intellectual growth,
Emotional Growth, Citizenship
Actual Criterion - ✔✔Operational or actual standard. EX: Grade point average, adviser
rating of emotional maturity, and number of volunteer organizations joined in college
Criterion Deficiency - ✔✔the degree to which actual criteria fail to overlap conceptual
criteria, can be reduced but not eliminate
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, Criterion Relevance - ✔✔Degree to which actual criteria and conceptual criteria
coincide
Criterion Contamination - ✔✔unrelated to the conceptual criteria - two parts: Bias and
Error
Low-context culture - ✔✔Information is explicit, Words have specific meaning,
Communication is highly verbal
Low Contact Culture - ✔✔the preference is to stand apart and not touch each other
while communicating
Bias - ✔✔extent actual criteria consistently measures something else
Error - ✔✔extent to which actual criteria is related to nothing at all
Task Orientated - ✔✔i. Examine the tasks performed
ii. Task Statements are written
iii. Incumbents then rate the tasks on difficulty, importance, frequency
iv. Functional Job Analysis (FJA), rates on things, data, and people
KSAOs - ✔✔knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics
Job Analysis Procedure - ✔✔Task orientated, worker oriented, linkage analysis
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and Answers 100% Pass
Fields of I/O Psychology - ✔✔Selection and Placement, Training and Development,
Performance Appraisal, Organization Development, Quality of Worklife, Ergonomics
High Context Cultures - ✔✔High: Information is implicit, Meaning of words depends
on the context, Communication is highly non-verbal
High Contact Culture - ✔✔encourage people to use their senses-to stay close to each
other and touch each other in process of communicating- as part of the communication
process
Conceptual Criteria - ✔✔Theoretical construct, abstract idea. EX: Intellectual growth,
Emotional Growth, Citizenship
Actual Criterion - ✔✔Operational or actual standard. EX: Grade point average, adviser
rating of emotional maturity, and number of volunteer organizations joined in college
Criterion Deficiency - ✔✔the degree to which actual criteria fail to overlap conceptual
criteria, can be reduced but not eliminate
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, Criterion Relevance - ✔✔Degree to which actual criteria and conceptual criteria
coincide
Criterion Contamination - ✔✔unrelated to the conceptual criteria - two parts: Bias and
Error
Low-context culture - ✔✔Information is explicit, Words have specific meaning,
Communication is highly verbal
Low Contact Culture - ✔✔the preference is to stand apart and not touch each other
while communicating
Bias - ✔✔extent actual criteria consistently measures something else
Error - ✔✔extent to which actual criteria is related to nothing at all
Task Orientated - ✔✔i. Examine the tasks performed
ii. Task Statements are written
iii. Incumbents then rate the tasks on difficulty, importance, frequency
iv. Functional Job Analysis (FJA), rates on things, data, and people
KSAOs - ✔✔knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics
Job Analysis Procedure - ✔✔Task orientated, worker oriented, linkage analysis
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