I/o Psychology 1 " Introduction To Industrial Or Organizational Psychology"

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Institutional Review Board (IRB)

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A committee designated to ensure the Ethical treatment of research subjects

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Practicum

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A paid or unpaid position with an organization that gives a student a practical work experience

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I/O Psychology

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A branch of Psychology that applies the principles of Psychology to workplace

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Personnel Psychology

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A field of study that concentrates on the selection and evaluation of employees

Includes analyzing jobs, recruitment, employee selection, salary determination, training and employee evaluation

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Internship

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A situation in which a student works for an organization either for pay or as volunteer to receive a practical work experience

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Terminal Master's Degree Program

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A graduate programs that offers a master's degree but not Ph.D.

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Hypothesis

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An educated prediction about an answer

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Graduate Record Exam (GRE)

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A standardized admission test required by most Psychology graduate schools

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Hawthorne Effect

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Happens when employees change their behaviors, due solely to the fact that they are being observed or are receiving attention

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Human Factors

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A field that concentrates on the interaction between a human and a machine

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Includes workplace design, human machine interaction, ergonomics, physical fatigue and stress

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Organizational Psychology

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Investigates the behavior of the employees within the context of an organization

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Includes leadership, job satisfaction, employee motivation, Organizational communication, conflict management, Organizational change and group processes

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Dissertation

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A formal research paper required of most doctoral students in order to graduate

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Journals

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A written collection of articles describing the methods and results of new research

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Theory

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A systematic sets of assumptions regarding the cause and nature of behavior

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Field Research

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A research conducted in a natural settings as opposed to the laboratory

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Hawthorne studies

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A series of studies conducted at the western electric plant in Hawthorne Illinois, that have come to represent any change in behavior when react to change in the environment

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Army Beta

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An intelligence test developed during world war 2 used by army for soldiers who cannot read

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Army Alpha

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An intelligence test developed during world war 2 used by the army for soldiers who can read

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Experiment

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A type of research study in which the independent variable is manipulated by the experimenter

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Cause and effect relationship

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The result of a well controlled experiment about which the researchers can confidently states that the independent variable caused the change to the dependent variables

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Mean Effect Size

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A statistical that is the average of effect size for all the studies included in the analysis

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Effect Size

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A statistical that indicates the amount of change caused by an experimental manipulation

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Meta Analysis

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A statistical method of reaching conclusion based on previous research

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Survey

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To ask people their opinion about some topics

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Quasi Experiment

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Research methods in which the experimenter either manipulate the independent variable on which the subjects are not randomly assigned to conditions

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Intervening Variable

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A third variable that can often explain the relationship between two variables

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Archival Research

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Research that involves the use of previously collected data

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Controlled group

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A group who do not receive any type of treatment so that they can be compared with that of groups who do not receive any treatment

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Experimental group

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A group that receive the experimental treatment of interest to the experimenter

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Dependent variable

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The measure of behavior that is expected to change as a result of changes in the independent variable

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Independent variable

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The manipulated variable in the experiment

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Manipulation

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The alteration of a variable by an experimenter in expectation that the alteration will result in a change in the dependent variable

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Generalizability

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Other term for external validity

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External validity

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The extent to which research result can be expected to hold true outside the specific settings in which they were obtained

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Magazine

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An unscientific collection of articles about a wide range of topics

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Trade Magazines

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A collection of articles for those "in the biz" about related professional topics seldom directly reporting the methods and results of new research

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Correlation

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A statistical procedure used to measure the relationship between two variables

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Debriefed

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Informing the subjects in an experiment about the purpose of the study

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Random Assignment

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The random unbiased assignment of subjects in a research sample to the various experimental and controlled conditions

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Practical Significance

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The result of the study have actual impact on human behavior

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Informed Consent

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The formal process by which subjects are given permission to be included in the study

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Convenience sample

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A non random research sample that is used because it is easily available

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Type b dillema

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A rationalizing dilemma, know what is right but chooses what is advantageous

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Type A dillema

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There is a high level of uncertainty as to what is right or wrong, there appears to be no best solution and there are both positive and negative consequences to a decision

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Random sample

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Member of relevant population had an equal chance of being chosen to participate in the study

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Difference Score

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A type of effect size used in meta Analysis that signified by the letter d and indicates how many standard deviation separate the mean score for the experimental group from the controlled group

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Correlation coefficient

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A statistical resulting from performing a correlation that indicates the magnitude and direction of a relationship