Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Hawthorne Effect

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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The historical roots of industrial-organizational psychology: industrial psychology: personnel selection and placement. 1913: munsterberg publishes the psychology of industrial efficiency : to increase productivity select people with skills that match the job requirements, personnel selection (selecting the right person for the job) 1917 (wwi): industrial psychology emergency response to us army"s practical problem: how to select the best soldiers, army enlists psychologists who develop two intelligence tests army alpha and. Then, new tests to select best officers, best pilots; eliminate most neurotic" recruits. Psychological tests could be used to screen and classify large numbers of people. Then businesses and schools want their own tests to select and classify people: organizational psychology (1924): The hawthorne studies at western electric plant (in hawthorne illinois: the effect of environmental factors on productivity (ex. Physical environment is not as important as the social & psychological environment: employees knew they were being observed (so they worked harder, the hawthorne effect (cid:1) (cid:1)