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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....