PSYC 3050 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Testability
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Chapter 1: intro to i/o psych: don"t need to know dates, just know authors opinion on job, technology, organizations that will influence the field of i/o psych, know what i/o psychologists do, i. e. cultural climate, attitudes, performance management, etc, know the hawthorne studies: basics of what they were and the fact that they are the birth of organizational psychology. Chapter 2: research methods in i/o psych: theories, precise, parsimonious, testability, usefulness, generativity, know for statistics, mean ,median, mode, laboratory studies/experiments v. field studies/experiments, predictor v. criteria, look at correlation distribution. Chapter 3: job analysis: know job analysis is needed as a legal defense tool, validation of test, approaches paq, worker oriented v. task oriented, functional job analysis, task v. elements. Chapter 4: criterion measurements: dynamic nature, critical deficiency, reliability, subjective, all validity types, memory tool for this: look at it as a hierarchy, task/contextual performance.
