EXAM 1: Chapter 1 - What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology and History of it

Question 1

What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?

Answer 1

Specialty area of psychology that studies how people behave and think in work situations and applies psychological principles to workplace issues.

Question 2

Fields of I/O Psych?

Answer 2

Personnel Psychology and Organizational Psychology

Question 3

History of Early Years?

Answer 3

Early Years with Four(Five) Founding Figures
Walter Dill Scott
Frederick Taylor
Lillian and Frank Gilberth
Hugo Munsterburg

Question 4

History for WWI

Answer 4

WWI

Army Alpha and Beta Tests, Alpha for literate, beta once they discovered about 30% were illiterate

Question 5

Between War History

Answer 5

I/O is Mainstream

Hawthorne Studies - performance improvement until novelty ends.

Question 6

WWII History

Answer 6

Army and Psychologists work together

Army General Classification Test and Situational stress tests

Question 7

Toward Specialization

Answer 7

Legitimate field of psychology

Sub-Specialties emerging

Question 8

Government Intervention

Answer 8

Civil Rights Act (CRA), Title VII
Uniform Guidelines
ADA
CRA Updated
Project A - ASVAB

Question 9

Information Age (1994-Current)

Answer 9

Technology
Changing Demographics
Economic Changes
Golbalization

Question 10

Personnel Psychology covers

Answer 10

Selection and Placement, Training and Development, and Performance Management;

Question 11

Organizational covers

Answer 11

Organizational effectiveness, quality of work life, Job attitudes, and Ergonomics possibly?

Question 12

Hawthorne Effect

Answer 12

Performance improvement due to being observed / having a novelty introduced, improvement lasts until novelty fades

Question 13

Cross-Cultural I/O

Answer 13

Degree to which psychological concepts and findings generalize to other cultures and societies. Words can have different meanings in different languages and cultures.