Psychology 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Face Validity, Construct Validity, Job Satisfaction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2060
• Professor: Irene Cheung

Document Summary

Frederick taylor- how to create the most work in the least amount of time. Time motion studies and pioneer of paying people per units of work they did (piece rate) Dr. lilian gilbreth- mother of industrial psychology. Pre-world war 1 (army got interested in learning how to pick soldiers) Between the wars (people were recognized as people, the hawthorne studies-intervening takes effect) Ww2- more focus of technology and strategy of fighting. After the war was over- work became much more specialized, greater role of the government and information age (virtual teams) Primary research methods: lab experiments, field and quasi, questionnaires/ surveys, observation. Random assignment to condition- you and i have an equal chance of being conditioned. Confounding variable- some outside variable is causing the change. Secondary research methods: narrative reviews/summaries and meta-analysis. Qualitative research- watching and listening, participant observation and ethnographic analysis: insider: emic outsider: etic.