Chapter 1 Flashcards
A branch of
psychology that applies the
principles of psychology to the
workplace
Industrial Organizational Psychology
The
field of study that concentrates
on the selection and evaluation
of employees
Personnel Psychology
The field of study
that investigates the behavior of
employees within the context of
an organization
Organizational Psychology
A field of
study concentrating on the interaction between humans and
machines
Human Factors
An intelligence
test developed during World
War I and used by the army for
soldiers who can read
Army Alpha
An intelligence
test developed during World
War I and used by the army for
soldiers who cannot read
Army Beta
A series
of studies, conducted at the
Western Electric plant in
Hawthorne, Illinois, that have
come to represent any change in
behavior when people react to a
change in the environment
Hawthorne studies
When
employees change their behavior
due solely to the fact that they
are receiving attention or are
being observed
Hawthorne effect
A standardized admission
test required by most psychology
graduate schools
Graduate Record Exam
(GRE)
Graduate programs
that offer a master’s degree but
not a Ph.D
Terminal master’s degree
programs
A situation in
which a student works for an
organization, either for pay or as
a volunteer, to receive practical
work experience
Internship
A paid or unpaid
position with an organization
that gives a student practical
work experience
Practicum
A formal
research paper required of
most doctoral students in
order to graduate
Dissertation
An educated
prediction about the answer to
a research question
Hypothesis
A systematic set of
assumptions regarding the cause
and nature of behavior.
Theory
