Intro to I/O Psychology
| Word/Idea/Person (memorize) | Definition/About (memorize) |
|---|---|
| SIOP | Society for I/O Psychology |
| Industrial Psychology | improve, evaluate, predict employee |
| Organizational | how organizations impact individuals |
| Employers | Academic and Consulting Firms |
| Master in I/O takes | 2 years to earn |
| Ph.D. in I/O take | 5 years to earn |
| Wilhem Wundt | Founder of Psychology and trained pioneers of I/O |
| Walter Dill Scott, Early | True Scientist Practitioner, published psychology of advertising |
| Hugo Munsterberg | Father of I/O, selection process for trolley drivers |
| Frederick Taylor | Scientific management, analyze job characteristics and then find employee |
| Bureau of Salesmanship Research | Walter Dill Scott was Director, predicted sales performance |
| Robert Yerkes | Wrote the Army Alpha and Beta test |
| Walter Dill Scott, WWI | began job analysis and performance appraisal |
| Psychological Corporation | founded by James McKeen Cattell, studied individual differences via heredity |
| Walter Dill Scott, between wars | founded the Scott company, and took over Psych Corp |
| Bruce V. Moore | earned first Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Carnegie Tech, worked at PSU |
| Hawthorne Studies | effect of work environment on performance, birth of Organizational Psychology |
| Walter Bingham, WWII | Chaired advisory committee on classification of military person, Army General classification Test |
| Hofstede’s Theory of Culture | individual vs collective; power distance; uncertainty avoidance; masculinity vs femininity; long vs short term orientation |
| Correlation Research | used most often used method, cannot tell causality, how do naturally occurring variables covary |
| Constructs | non-tangible variable like job satisfaction or self efficacy |
| Reliability | measuring something consistently, >= .70 |
| Test-Retest Reliability | stability of a measure over time |
| Parallel Forms Reliability | consistency of scores from one version of a measure with another version |
| Inter-Rater Reliability | consistency with which people provide rating |
| Internal Consistency Reliability | Split Half Reliability, consistency of responses to items within a measure |
| Coefficient Alpha | average of all possible split halves |
| Validity | measuring what is intended |
| Construct Validity | how well an instrument measures an abstract quality |
| Content Validity | logical conceptual evidence, sampling of the entire domain that a construct represents |
| Convergent and Discriminant Validity | statistical evidence, measure variable of interest and related (convergent) and unrelated (discriminant) variables |
| Trivial Correlation | r < 0.10 |
| Weak Correlation | 0.10 < r < 0.30 |
| Moderate Correlation | 0.30 < r < 0.50 |
| Strong Correlation | 0.50 < r |
| Coefficient of Determination | r2, proportion of variance in one variable that is accounted by the other variable |
| Meta Analysis | quantitative summary of numerous empirical studies |
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