CCP - Unit 1 Review: Chapter 13

What is the purpose of human factors psychology?

• To tailor appliances, machines, and work settings to our natural perceptions and inclinations

• To analyze consumer behavior

• To study abnormal psychology

• To investigate cognitive processes

Industrial psychology focuses on

• the design of office spaces for aesthetics
• job requirements and assessing employees

• the history of industrial revolutions
• the impact of technology on manufacturing

Organizational psychology is concerned with

• the analysis of financial performance in companies.
• the development of marketing strategies for businesses.
• the ways in which relationships among employees affect them and business performance

• the study of leadership styles in educational institutions.

What is the Hawthorne Effect?

• A strategy to reduce employee recognition

• A method to minimize employee privacy in the workplace

• A technique to increase employee performance through rewards

• A phenomenon where changes in employee behavior are observed simply because they are being studied

What is the primary focus of professionals in Occupational Health Psychology (OHP)?

• Maximizing corporate profits

• Enhancing worker health, safety, and well-being

• Improving consumer health

• Promoting environmental sustainability

Which of the following is not part of a KSA?

• Experience
• Knowledge
• Abilities
• Skills

Industrial organizational psychology began with James Cattell when he began a

• Recruiting office

• Consulting company

• Standard interviewing process

• New technological method of data collecting

Which psychologists studied the effects of leadership styles, team structures, and team dynamics?

• Kurt Lewin

• James Cattell

• Carl Rogers
• Frederick Taylor

Task oriented and workers oriented job descriptions are two types of:

• Job analysis methods

• Workplace safety protocols
• Employee engagement strategies
• Performance evaluation techniques

In this type of interview, the interviewer asks all the candidates the same questions in order to compare them in an impartial (fair) way.

• Unstructured Interview

• Video Interview

• Second Interview

• Structured Interview