CH 1: Intro to Industrial Organizational Psych Flashcards
What is the Welfare-to-work program?
-Program that requires individuals to work in government in return for govt. subsidies
What is Telecommunicating?
-Getting work tasks done when in a distant location via the web
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
- He founded one of the first psych labs in germany
- 1876-1930s
What 2 people did Wilhelm Wundt train?
- Hugo Munsterburg
- James Mckeen Cattell (aka 1st cattell)
Who was Hugo Munsterburg?
- Director of psych sciences at Harvard
- Intially devoted to experimental psych
- Wrote 1st textbook
What was Hugo Munsterburg interested in?
-Abilities in workers & tie to performance
Who was James Mckeen Cattell?
-He worked with wundt more
What was James Mckeen Cattell interested in?
-The differences among people as a way to predict their behavior
Who were Walter Dill Scott and Walter Van Dyke Bingham?
- Worked at Carnegie institute
- Volunteered during WWI to help w/ testing army recruits
What test was adapted in order to make form the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests?
-The Stanford-Benet test which is modified to better suit a group setting rather than the individual setting that it was meant for
What is the difference between Army Alpha and Army Beta tests?
-Army Beta is like the army alpha except that the army beta was nonverbal and meant for people that couldn’t read
Who had the first Ph.D in Industrial Organizational Psych?
-Lillian Gilbreth
What did Lillian Gilbreth’s doctoral work consist of?
-Application of the Scientific Management principles of Frederick W. Taylor
What is Scientific Management?
- Developed by Frederick W. Taylor
- Suggested that there is one best way to perform a job
What were the principles of Scientific Management based on?
Time and motion studies
What are Time and Motion Studies?
-Studies that break down an action into its constituent parts & then timed those movements with a stopwatch, and then developed more efficient movements to improve production
What is revery Obsession?
- Proposed by Elton Mayo
- Mental state that is resulted from mind-numbing repetitive work= causes workers to be unhappy
What are Hawthorne Studies?
- Research done at Hawthorne, Illinois at the Western Electric Company
- Attempts to increase productivity by manipulating lights, rest breaks, etc
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
-The change of behavior that results from researchers paying attention to the workers
What is the Human Relations Movement?
-The movement of focusing on work attitudes and the newly discovered emotional world of the worker
What is the Title VII Civil Rights Act of 1964?
-Federal Legislation that prohibits employment discrimination
When was the American Psychological Association founded?
-1892
