I/o Psych Quiz #1

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Definition of I/O Psych?

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application of psychological principles, theory, and research to the work setting

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Domains of I/O Psych?

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the scientific study of the workplace and work-related cognition affect feelings and behavior

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Who are the 2 fathers of psychology? (one German and one American)

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German: Wilhem Wundt

American: William James

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James McKeen Cattell

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American psychologist who developed the first mental test

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Hugo Munsterberg

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German psychologist who wrote the first I/O book, and was one of the first people to measure workers' abilities and tie them to their performance

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What is the difference between William Wundt's psychology and James McKeen Cattell and Hugo Munsterberg's psychology?

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William Wundt trained James McKeen Cattell and Hugo Munsterberg. Cattell and Munsterberg focused on the differences between individual people

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Who developed Army Alpha?

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Walter Dill Scott and Walter Van Dyke Bingham

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What is Army Alpha?

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1st group intelligence test adapted from the Stanford-Binet test to select army soldiers in WWI

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What is the difference between Army Alpha and Army Beta?

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Army Alpha: verbal

Army Beta: non-verbal version

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Henry Murray

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developed the 1st US assessment center for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to pick spies

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What is the pre-CIA agency?

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Office of Strategic Services (OSS), developed by Henry Murray

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"Assessment Center" Method

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later used Douglas Bray & Ann Howard's AT&T "Management Progress Study" to establish the link between personality and career performance

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What did Fredrick Winslow Taylor do to establish "Taylorism," or scientific management?

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he used "stopwatch time studies" to analyze the quickest amount of time to do a job

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According to Fredrick Winslow Taylor, what is workers' prime motivator?

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money

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What is the problem with Amazon's Fulfillment Center?

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pressure on performance, inhumane work conditions, low wages, short contracts

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Frank and Lilian Gilbreth's time and motion study

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Goal was to increase work efficiency. They focused on the worker's main activities and movements, and filmed them and timed them.

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Fun facts about Lilian Gilbreth?

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1st PhD in Industrial Psych

1st woman in engineering and management

taught at Purdue!

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The "I" and "O" sides of I/O psych are a _________.

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continuum

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Hawthorne Studies by Elton Mayo

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Elton Mayo studied the efficiency of workers, while also focusing on their emotions and motivation

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Human Engineering Project

(a Hawthorne Study)

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Varied workplace conditions to discover what would help or hinder worker performance.

They found that no matter what they did, the workers' performance became better.

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Human Relations Movement

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Brought forth the Civil Rights Movement (Title XII) and other social movements.

Social factors will override financial factors.

Good relationships in the work place will increase productivity.

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Implications of the Hawthorne Studies and the Human Relations Movement

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workers attitudes are important to productivity AND an organizations' practices can affect workers' attitudes

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What are individual differences?

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dissimilarities between or among two or more people

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Constructs (what) vs. Methods of Assessment (how)

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Constructs: cognitive ability and conscientiousness

Methods of Assessment: paper-and-pencil test, structured interview, biodata

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Wonderlic Personnel Test

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A measure of Spearman's "g"

50 questions, 12 minutes, assess verbal, spatial, and math abilities

NFL uses it

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Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)

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10 sections; 7-39 minutes for each section.

Assesses verbal, spatial, and math abilities, as well as specific knowledge components

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How do you know if you should use a specific or general test?

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Depends on the job

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Charles Edward Spearman

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"g factor" is one variable that measures all aspects of intelligence into one

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Louis Leon Thurstone

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we have primary mental abilities (more specific intelligences for more specific factors)

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John Carroll

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a hierarchal 3-stratum level model:

1). "g factor" on top

2). primary abilities in middle (including fluid and crystallized intelligence and memory)

3). specific abilities on the bottom

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Why do cognitive ability and intelligence test matter?

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Bandwidth: (whether you use a broad or narrow view intelligence test?)

Incremental Validity: (if you are adding a second test, you need to think about what the second test adds to the application)

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What is the strongest predictor of training success and performance at work?

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"g"

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What is the scatterplot rule of thumb for what is a small/medium/large correlation?

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r ~ .10 is small

r ~ .30 is medium

r >= .50 is large

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What is the Flynn effect?

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A James R. Flynn study where scores on intelligence tests increase substantially over time

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Raymond B. Cattell's Investment Theory of Intelligence

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Fluid intelligence (Gf): general learning and reasoning ability, inductive and deductive reasoning ability

Crystallized intelligence (Gc): accumulated knowledge and skills

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How do you develop and validate psychology tests?

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-Avoid cultures and values.

-All factors being assessed in the test should be predictive of future behavior.

-Make sure the measurement is equivalent across multiple groups.

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Define criterion-related validity.

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the extent to which a psychological construct or assessment relates to an outcome

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Define concurrent validity.

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The predictor and criterion are measured at the same time.

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Define predictive validity.

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The predictor is measured before the criterion is measured.

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What is meta-analysis?

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a statistical method for combining and analyzing the results&data from many studies to draw a general conclusion

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What is a mediator?

What is a moderator?

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Mediator: something that is the reason that x causes y

Moderator: something that if changed, would cause the relationship between x and y to change

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Define personality.

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a person's characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving that generalizes across a wide variety of situations

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What is the Experience Sampling Method (ESM)?

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it is used to capture the variation within a person's character

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What is the unit of analysis for I/O Psychology?

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can be individuals, groups, teams, organizations