INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - D576 WGU QUESTIONS | WITH SOLUTIONS
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industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology - (answer)is a branch of psychology that studies how human
behavior and psychology affect work and how they are affected by work.
(work psychology)
Industrial and organizational psychologists work in four main contexts. - (answer)academia,
government, consulting firms, and business.
3 broad areas of I-O - (answer)industrial, organizational, and human factors.
Industrial psychology - (answer)is concerned with describing job requirements and assessing individuals
for their ability to meet those requirements.
In addition, once employees are hired, industrial psychology studies and develops ways to train,
evaluate, and respond to those evaluations. As a consequence of its concern for candidate
characteristics, industrial psychology must also consider issues of legality regarding discrimination in
hiring
Organizational psychology - (answer)is a discipline interested in how the relationships among employees
affect those employees and the performance of a business. This includes studying worker satisfaction,
motivation, and commitment.
studies management, leadership, and organizational culture, as well as how an organization's
structures, management and leadership styles, social norms, and role expectations affect individual
behavior. As a result of its interest in worker wellbeing and relationships, organizational psychology also
considers the subjects of harassment, including sexual harassment, and workplace violence
Human factors psychology - (answer)is the study of how workers interact with the tools of work and
how to design those tools to optimize workers' productivity, safety, and health.
, INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - D576 WGU QUESTIONS | WITH SOLUTIONS
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These studies can involve interactions as straightforward as the fit of a desk, chair, and computer to a
human having to sit on the chair at the desk using the computer for several hours each day.
Wilhelm Wundt, - (answer)father of EXPERIMENTAL psychology
Cattell - (answer)contribution to industrial psychology is largely reflected in his founding of a
psychological consulting company, which is still operating today called the Psychological Corporation,
and in the accomplishments of students at Columbia in the area of industrial psychology
Lewin - (answer)also conducted research on the effects of various leadership styles, team structure, and
team dynamics
Lewin was also responsible for coining the term group dynamics, and he was involved in studies of
group interactions, cooperation, competition, and communication that bear on organizational
psychology.
two types of interviews: - (answer)unstructured and structured.
found that structured interviews were more effective at predicting subsequent job performance of the
job candidate.
Mentoring - (answer)examined mentoring effects on the mentor and found that mentoring was
associated with greater job satisfaction and organizational commitment
effectiveness of organisational training - (answer)found that training was, in fact, effective when
measured by the immediate response of the employee to the training effort, evaluation of learning
outcomes (e.g., a test at the end of the training), behavioral measurements of job activities by a
supervisor, and results- based criteria (e.g., productivity or profits).
SCORED A+
industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology - (answer)is a branch of psychology that studies how human
behavior and psychology affect work and how they are affected by work.
(work psychology)
Industrial and organizational psychologists work in four main contexts. - (answer)academia,
government, consulting firms, and business.
3 broad areas of I-O - (answer)industrial, organizational, and human factors.
Industrial psychology - (answer)is concerned with describing job requirements and assessing individuals
for their ability to meet those requirements.
In addition, once employees are hired, industrial psychology studies and develops ways to train,
evaluate, and respond to those evaluations. As a consequence of its concern for candidate
characteristics, industrial psychology must also consider issues of legality regarding discrimination in
hiring
Organizational psychology - (answer)is a discipline interested in how the relationships among employees
affect those employees and the performance of a business. This includes studying worker satisfaction,
motivation, and commitment.
studies management, leadership, and organizational culture, as well as how an organization's
structures, management and leadership styles, social norms, and role expectations affect individual
behavior. As a result of its interest in worker wellbeing and relationships, organizational psychology also
considers the subjects of harassment, including sexual harassment, and workplace violence
Human factors psychology - (answer)is the study of how workers interact with the tools of work and
how to design those tools to optimize workers' productivity, safety, and health.
, INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - D576 WGU QUESTIONS | WITH SOLUTIONS
SCORED A+
These studies can involve interactions as straightforward as the fit of a desk, chair, and computer to a
human having to sit on the chair at the desk using the computer for several hours each day.
Wilhelm Wundt, - (answer)father of EXPERIMENTAL psychology
Cattell - (answer)contribution to industrial psychology is largely reflected in his founding of a
psychological consulting company, which is still operating today called the Psychological Corporation,
and in the accomplishments of students at Columbia in the area of industrial psychology
Lewin - (answer)also conducted research on the effects of various leadership styles, team structure, and
team dynamics
Lewin was also responsible for coining the term group dynamics, and he was involved in studies of
group interactions, cooperation, competition, and communication that bear on organizational
psychology.
two types of interviews: - (answer)unstructured and structured.
found that structured interviews were more effective at predicting subsequent job performance of the
job candidate.
Mentoring - (answer)examined mentoring effects on the mentor and found that mentoring was
associated with greater job satisfaction and organizational commitment
effectiveness of organisational training - (answer)found that training was, in fact, effective when
measured by the immediate response of the employee to the training effort, evaluation of learning
outcomes (e.g., a test at the end of the training), behavioral measurements of job activities by a
supervisor, and results- based criteria (e.g., productivity or profits).
