PSYC 2801 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychological Safety, Construct Validity, Models 1

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2801
• Professor: Bernadette Campbell

Document Summary

Lesson 1: industrial- organizational psychology: historical foundations: industrial-organizational psychology is the scientific study of individual and group behaviour in formal organizations (often workplaces). The results were that the outputs of workers improved in both conditions. Subsequent studies examined women assembling switches with different breaks and hours. Similarly the outputs of these women all increased during the study. Researchers concluded that the increased production was due to the social factor of being observed and not the conditions they were exposed to. These studies led to psychologists looking at work environments more broadly and pay more attention to social factors: the scientific practitioner perspective is what i/o psychologists use. It highlights the importance of research and practice as an interactive relationship each contributing to one another. Measurement can be done using quantitative methods wherein concepts are translated into numbers or qualitative methods wherein there is not number value (e. g. observations): step 4: data analysis involves analyzing the result of your measurement.