Psychology

Reading Analysis for PSY 231 Textbook:

Chapter 1:

1.1: The importance of I-O Psychology

I-O psychology: The application of psychological principles, theory and research to the work setting

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: An association to which many I-O psychologists, both practitioners and researchers, belong.

Personnel Psychology: Field of psychology that addresses issues such as recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, promotion, transfer, and termination

Human resources management (HRM): Practices such as recruitment, slection, retention, training and development of people (human resources) in order to achieve individual and organizational goals.

Organizational psychology: Field of psychology that combines research from social psychology and organizational behavior and addresses the emotional and motivational side of work.

Human Psychology: The study of capabilities and limitations of human wrt to a particular environment

Scientist-practitioner model: The emphasis on the application of scientific knowledge.

Stanford-Binet Test: A well-known intelligence test designed for testing one individual at a time. Originally developed by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon in 1905. The Binet-Simon Test was updated starting in 1916 by Lewis Terman and colleagues at Stanford University, which led to the test’s current name.

Time and motion studies:

Studies that broke every action down into its constituent parts, timed those movements with a stopwatch, and developed new and more efficient movements that would reduce fatigue and increase productivity.

Revery Obsession:

Resulted from the mind-numbing, repetitive and difficult work that characterized the factories of the day.

1. Observational design: Researcher observes employee behavior and systematically records what is observed

2. Survey design: Research strategy in which participants are asked to complete a questionnaire or a survey....