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industrial organizational psychology understanding the workplace
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Industrial Organizational Psychology Understanding The Workplace
=+3. How does committing oneself to personally meaningful goals relate to well-being?
=+2. What are three ways for people to enhance their happiness?
=+1. Explain the term hedonic treadmill and give some real-world examples of it.
=+How did it affect your happiness?
=+• Have you ever engaged in political activism?
=+Do you think happiness makes people complacent? Why or why not?
=+3. What is meant by the valence of an emotion and by the terms positive affect and negative affect?
=+2. What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
=+1. What are the key differences between the James–Lange theory and the Cannon–Bard theory of emotion?
=+3. Where would you place the following feelings on the circle:worried, proud, angry, embarrassed?
=+2. According to the model, which emotion is the exact opposite of“serene”?
=+of their arousal. Which is higher in arousal? Do you agree with the placement of these emotions? Explain.
=+1. Locate the emotions “upset” and “sad” on the circumplex. According to the circumplex, these two feelings differ primarily in terms
=+3. How do intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation differ?
=+2. What is self-actualization, according to Maslow, and on what does it depend?
=+1. What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Explain.
=+3. What are some key ways bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder differ?
=+2. What is leptin, and how does it function in the body?
=+1. In Cannon and Washburn’s classic study on hunger, what bodily associations were revealed?
=+include EMTs, lifeguards, and emergency room staff. (Name some others.) How might such individuals train themselves to perform even under conditions of extreme arousal?
=+4. In many professions, people are forced to perform under conditions of very high arousal. These
=+striking out the last batter, or impressing an audience? How might arousal influence performance in those cases?
=+How might that person feel when faced with being on the spot, trying to sink a winning free throw,
=+3. Now think about performance in sports or the arts.Imagine your favorite athlete, musician, or actor.
=+performance meet up. Does it fit with the Yerkes–Dodson prediction?
=+2. How did you actually do on that test? Plot your performance on the graph—find the place on the graph where your arousal level and your test
=+be in the medium range. If you were feeling sluggish, your arousal level would be low.
=+1. What was your arousal level the last time you took an exam? If you were very nervous, your arousal level would be considered high. If you were excited and engaged but not too worried, your level
=+3. What is overlearning, and how can it help individuals perform at their best?
=+2. What are three theoretical approaches to motivation?
=+1. What is motivation?
=+5. You might have heard the statement that “40 is the new 30” or“50 is the new 40.” What trend do these statements reflect? What might explain this trend? What might it mean for our
=+achieved your life dreams. What is your life like at this stage? What things about you are the same as they are for you now as a student of psychology? What things have changed? What is your best
=+4. Set aside 15 minutes to write a brief essay as follows. Think about your life in the future, when you are 70 or 80 years old. Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could, and
=+developmental psychologists? Does the advice that parents share with one another seem to be based on the science of psychology?
=+3. Go online and search for “parenting discussion boards.” Click on one or two of the many sites that come up, and see what parents are talking about. What issues seem to concern them most? Do
=+2 months, 2 years, and 10 years. With respect to the child’s development, what features of each toy are especially good for a child of the intended age group?
=+2. A major part of any child’s life is playing—and when kids are playing, they are often playing with toys. Using the information on perceptual and cognitive development reviewed in this
=+siblings, ask for their opinion, too. Do you agree with one another about your parents’ style? Now give these definitions to your parents and ask which, if any, describes them. Sometimes there
=+1. Consider the style of parenting with which you were raised. It might help to think of specific situations or moments when your parents put limits on your behavior (or did not). If you have one
=+3. What is involved when an individual pursues a life theme, such as leaving a legacy for future generations?
=+2. How does accommodation, in Piaget’s sense of the term, help adults to cope with life’s difficulties?
=+1. How does Piaget’s idea of assimilation apply to adult development?
=+3. What do longitudinal studies indicate about intellectual abilities in middle adulthood?
=+2. What is brain lateralization, and how might a decrease in lateralization in older adults play a role in the aging brain?
=+1. What are the five main features of emerging adulthood?
=+• Do you think emerging adults are adults or not?Why?
=+What skills develop during this time?
=+• Is emerging adulthood a developmental stage?
=+3. In what ways do parents and peers contribute to adolescent development?
=+ what happens if they do not successfully resolve an identity crisis?
=+2. According to Erikson, what challenges do adolescents face in trying to establish an identity, and
=+1. What characteristics of the adolescent brain help to explain why adolescents often display strong emotions that they cannot control?
=+ Why do you think this theme is so popular?
=+4. Finding one’s path in life is a common theme in popular books, TV shows, and film. Can you identify a book or movie that depicts the combination of exploration and resolution?
=+3. Which path to identity do you believe is most common in young people today?Why?
=+identity located? Do you feel that you have fully explored your potential identities? Why or why not?
=+2. Find your current identity status in this figure. In which quadrant is your own
=+attended college. What sorts of experiences might influence this adolescent’s journey to identity? How might background influence identity exploration?
=+1. Imagine an adolescent who comes from a family in which no one has ever
=+3. What are Erikson’s four childhood stages of development, and what is the central concern of each stage?
=+What are some key aspects of Vygotsky’s theory and information-processing theory?
=+2. According to Piaget, what two processes are responsible for how people use and adapt their schemas, and what is involved in each process?
=+1. What are teratogens? Give several examples of them.
=+5. Why do you think it took over 50 years for psychologists to question the appropriateness of Piaget’s methods?
=+4. If the baby does not reach out for the toy despite knowing that it still exists, what might the failure mean?
=+3. What motivational states (or goals) are required for the child to enact them?
=+2. What motor and perceptual skills are required for the child to enact those behaviors?
=+1. Look at the two photos. Assuming that the child does understand that the toy still exists behind the board, what behavior must the baby exhibit to indicate that understanding?
=+3. In what ways can developing individuals play a role in their own development?
=+ What are the limitations of crosssectional studies with respect to studying such questions?
=+2. Why are longitudinal studies commonly used to investigate developmental questions?
=+1. What three broad processes of change do developmental psychologists study?
Now we know that poverty, together with poverty-related factors, can inuence a child’s cognitive and social development. Moreover, we know that the timing of poverty episodes plays a huge role
To what extent do these two studies—Dickerson and Popli (2016) and Costello et al(2003)—solve the problem of separating effects of poverty on cognitive and social development from all other
Recall what you know from Unit 2 on the biological approach to behaviour, and say how the eects of poverty on cognitive development link to the following ideas and research studies.● Adoption
Draw a owchart or any other visual representation of pathways of poverty
Given this complexity of interacting variables in human sciences, to what extent is it even possible to single out identiable causes? Is reductionism the only way to identify such causes?How are
Work in a small group to make a poster with a visual representation of various effects of poverty on cognitive and social development.Collect the posters from the other groups in your class and make
What is the role of confounding variables in research? When you think about this question, consider comparing qualitative and quantitative research. For example, when we are conducting an experiment
● Will children from poor families catch up with children in better circumstances, once placed in an enriched environment?
● Are the effects of poverty irreversible?
● How can we separate the effects of poverty from other related effects (such as parenting, neighbourhood or substance abuse)?
● Does growing up in poverty inuence the cognitive development of a child?
Emtithal Mahmoud was 10 when she had to survive the horrors of the war and genocide in Darfur, western Sudan.She talks about her rst-hand experiences, and she demonstrates an example of resilience
Are there any special ethical considerations involved in the study of Maasai children undergoing a very harsh period of life where survival is at stake?
What is the scope of using reflexivity in deVries’s (1984)study?
Reexivity is an important part of qualitative research.How can reexivity be used in interviews and observations?
Recall what you know about interviews as a qualitative research method. If you were part of Betancourt’s team of researchers and you were asked to interview a former child soldier, how would you
When psychologists use the term “predictor” they usually mean a correlation between two variables measured at dierent points of time. Suppose you measured variable A two years ago and variable
There are three types of generalizability in qualitative research: case-to-case, sample-to-population and theoretical. Refer to Unit 1 on research methodology for information about these concepts,
What ethical procedures need to be followed if the participant is not physically or mentally capable of giving fully informed consent?
Regardless of the approach you take, research into the eects of trauma requires you to deal with sensitive issues and ask your participants sensitive questions.What are the ethical considerations
● Are there cultural differences in how children react to traumatic experiences?
● What should be done to enable children to“bounce back” from traumatic events such as family abuse, wars or natural disasters?
● Are the effects of trauma on cognitive and social development irreversible?
● What makes children capable or incapable of overcoming adverse life circumstances?
You nd out that your child is being rejected by peers in school. He is not being bullied, but he is being left out of things, and his opinions are largely ignored by classmates during class
Write four sentences that explain the signicance of peers in social interaction. Each sentence should express the perspective taken by one of these researchers, in turn.1. Manuilenko (1948)2.
Review evidence from these studies:Damon and Killen (1982)Nedospasova (1985)Sylva, Bruner and Genova (1976)Andersen and Kekelis (1986).Does the evidence support Piaget’s theory or Vygotsky’s
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