Exam 1: Introduction to I/O Psychology

Which of the following would a student in a doctoral program usually have to complete but a student in a master's program would not?

The statistical significance of research results tell us the probability that:

Changes in employee behavior that result from an employee being studied or receiving increased attention from mangers is called the:

you used an email survey, your results would be representative of the population in terms of:

To ensure ethical treatment of subjects, universities have:

I/O Psychology is a branch of psychology that _____ in the workplace.

A researcher sent a survey containing 5 questions to a sample of 500 employees. The wording was easy to understand and the researcher offered a financial incentive yet few employees returned the survey. What might be the reason for this low response?

_______ is a method of reaching conclusions based on the statistical combination of several previous research studies.

Regardless of the official start date, I/O psychology was born in the:

A researcher finds a strong correlation between job satisfaction and performance. What can he conclude from this correlation?

If I went through my employee files to determine what type of person makes the best employee, I would probably be conducting:

To get accepted into a graduate program in I/O psychology, a student usually must take which of the following standardized tests?

Which of the following will increase the response rates to mailed surveys?

I/O Psychology first started about:

Most research in industry uses a ________ sample.

The Harvard Business Review is an example of a:

In general, the majority of the research comparing college student samples with actual employee samples conclude that college students behave _______ real world samples.

In a ______ ethical dilemma, there is a high level of uncertainty as to what is right or wrong.

The use of correlational analysis does not allow you to infer a cause and effect relationship. This is because a third variable, a(n) ______ variable, often accounts for the relationship between the two variables.

What field research gains in _______ it loses in _______.