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What are two sub-topics within Organizational Psychology?
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Job attitudes, work motivation, occupational safety & health, leadership, workgroups & teams, etc
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Who is the father of scientific study?
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Wilhelm Wundt
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The perspective that I/O psychologists should be trained in both scientific inquiry and professional practice is referred to as what?
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The Scientist-Practitioner Model
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Who is credited as being the first psychologist to work in business and in what business did this psychologist work?
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Walter Dill Scott
Advertising |
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Consistency in measurement is called what?
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reliability
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If I told you that a lack of conscientiousness causes workplace accidents, what type of research design must I have used to come to this conclusion?
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experimental design
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The extent to which study findings apply to different people, settings, and time periods is defined as what?
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External validity or Generalizability
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What research design maximizes both researchers’ levels of control and the naturalness of the research setting?
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Field Experiment
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Define construct validity and list two types of validity that can support the presence of construct validity.
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Construct validity: The extent to which we measure what we claim to be measuring.
Content validity, criterion-related validity (and maybe face validity) |
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In work analysis, what do we call the characteristics or attributes that are necessary for a person to perform a job?
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KSAOs
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What is job performance?
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Behaviors that matter to an organization
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Connecting individual tasks with their relevant KSAOs is called what in work analysis?
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Linkage analysis
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A job performance measure that measures something other than job performance suffers from what?
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Criterion contamination
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Describe two ways that OCB is different from task performance.
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Task performance is job specific, OCB generally isn’t
Task performance is formal part of job, OCB often is not OCB is a function of personality, task performance ability OCB contributes to work context, task performance to an organization’s technical functioning |
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In selection, the symbol “g” represents what?
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General mental ability or General intelligence
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What are the Big 5 personality traits?
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Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism/Emotional Stability (OCEAN)
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What is the core difference between structured and unstructured job interviews?
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Structured present the same questions to all applicants, unstructured may change from one applicant to another
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What specific type of selection test includes items that obviously are meant to assess honesty?
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Overt (or clear purpose) integrity test
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What is the difference between a construct and a method and what is an example of each?
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Construct is what we want to measure and a method is how we measure it.
Construct = KSAs, personality, attitudes, etc. Method = interviews, ACs, work samples, tests, etc. |
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A construct that is expected to forecast future performance is called what in personnel selection?
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Predictor
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What is the name of the intelligence test developed in WWI for illiterate recruits?
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Army Beta
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The process of determining the extent to which a predictor correlates with job performance in a given setting is called what?
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Validation Study
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What is an organization’s “baserate”?
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The percentage of current employees who perform their jobs successfully
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act specifically prohibits what? (“discrimination” is not an acceptable answer)
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Making employment decisions based on a person’s membership in a protected class (i.e., race, sex, religion, color, national origin + disability, age)
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What is adverse impact and how is it generally identified?
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When an employment test results in different outcomes for different groups
Determined by comparing selection ratios, the 4/5ths or 80% rule |
