Lesson 1 IO

Question 1

This approach focuses on determining the competency of an individual to perform a job, staffing the oorganization with the employees.

Answer 1

Industrial approach

Question 2

This approach motivates employees to perform well, give them information to do their jobs, and provide working conditions that are safe and enjoyable.

Answer 2

Organizational Approah

Question 3

Guess if I approach or O approach
1. Job analysis
2. group behavior, teams, and conflicts
3. leadership
4. training system
5. selection techniques and decisions

Answer 3

1. I
2. o
3. o
4. i
5. i

Question 4

This field study and prsctice in such areas as analyzing jobs, recruiting applicants, selecting employees, determining salary levels, training employees, and evaluating employee performance.

Answer 4

Personnel Psychology

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Personnel Psychology

Question 6

field of study that investigates the behavior of employees within the context of an organization.

Answer 6

Organizational Psychology

Question 7

Approach in the Field of Psychology that are concerned with the issues of leadership, job satisfaction, employee motivation, conflict management,etc.

Answer 7

Organizational Psychology

Question 8

A field of study concentrating on the interaction between humans and machines.

Answer 8

Human factors/ Ergonomics

Question 9

Concentrate on workplace design, human-machine interaction, and physical fatigue and stress.

Answer 9

Human factors/ Ergonomics

Question 10

Developed perceptual and motor tests for potential pilots.

Answer 10

John Watson

Question 11

He is responsible for increasing the efficiency with which cargo ships were built, repair and loaded

Answer 11

Henry Gantt

Question 12

he created a 163-item knowledge test that he administered to over 900 applicants. The test and passing score were so difficult that only 5% of the applicant passed.

Answer 12

Thomas Edison

Question 13

among the first scientists to improve productivity and reduce fatigue by studying the motions used by workers.

Answer 13

Frank Gilberth and Lillian Moller Gilberth

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Hawthorne Studies

Question 15

When employees change their behavior due solely to the fact that they are receiving attention or are being observed. Specifically, they become more productive.

Answer 15

Hawthorne effects

Question 16

What are the four major changes in I/O Psych

Answer 16

1. Increased use of fairly sophisticated statistical techniques and method analysis.
2. An interest in the application of cognitive
   psychology to industry.
3. Increased interest in the effects of work on
   family and leisure activities. 1980’S To 1990’S
   4.I/O psychologist took renewed interest in
   developing methods to select employee

Question 17

T/F

I/O Psychology do not need to further study the problems we are facing today. It will still be relevant even without doing those

Answer 17

False. to be relevant, we need to further study the problems we are facing today.

Question 18

T/F

I/O Psychology should think of a way to always put our research into use

Answer 18

True

Question 19

T/F

I/O Psychology needs to think bigger. IO psychology should be represented at the “table” where such issues are being debated.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

T/F

The confidence of IO psychology depends on it being grounded in the scientific method.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

A system in which individuals share meanings and common ways of viewing events and objects

Answer 21

Culture

Question 22

T/F

Attempts to apply American theories to non american theories are not always successful

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Culture that values the group more than the individual.

Answer 23

Collectivist Culture

Question 24

a culture that values the individual more than the group.

Answer 24

Individualist Culture

Question 25

a culture that minimizes distances between individuals.

Answer 25

Horizontal Culture

Question 26

a culture that accepts and depends upon distances between individuals.

Answer 26

Vertical Culture

Question 27

The degree to which individuals are expected to look after themselves versus remaining integrated into groups

Answer 27

Individualism/Collectivism

Question 28

The degree to which less powerful members of an organization accept and expect an unequal distribution of power

Answer 28

Power Distance

Question 29

The extent to which members of a culture feel comfortable in unstructured situations.

Answer 29

Uncertainty Avoidance

Question 30

culture that tend to emphasize accomplishment and technical performance,

Answer 30

Masculine

Question 31

Culture that tend to emphasize interpersonal relationships and communication.

Answer 31

Feminine

Question 32

1. What is the field that concentrates on the selection and evaluation of employees?
   a. Organizational Psychology
   b. Industrial Psychology
   c. Personnel Psychology
   d. Ergonomics

Answer 32

C

Question 33

2. What is the Hawthorne Effect?
   a. An aberration in visual perception occurs where there is an incorrect perception of the sizes of body parts or external objects.
   b. Instances in which elevated expectations result in enhanced performance, whereas diminished expectations result in subpar performance.
   c. The alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
   d. This phenomenon refers to the improvement of a person’s physical or mental health that seems to occur after receiving a placebo or inert treatment.

Answer 33

C

Question 34

3. What is the approach that emphasizes identifying the required skills for a specific job, recruiting employees who possess those skills, and enhancing their competencies through training.
   a. Individual approach
   b. Organizational approach
   c. Industrial Approach
   d. Freudian Approach

Answer 34

C

Question 35

4. What is the field that concentrates on the interaction between humans and machines?
   a. Organizational Psychology
   b. Industrial Psychology
   c. Personnel Psychology
   d. Ergonomics

Answer 35

D

Question 36

5. One of the pioneers in behaviorism who served as a major in the U.S. Army in World War I and developed perceptual and motor tests for potential pilots?
   a. Hugo Münsterberg
   b. W. L. Bryan
   c. Scott
   d. John Watson

Answer 36

D