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industrial organizational psychology understanding the workplace
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Industrial Organizational Psychology Understanding The Workplace
4. Which of the following professionals is most likely to prescribe medication for a mental health disorder?a. A clinical psychologistb. A psychiatristc. A biopsychologistd. An experimental
3. Which modern psychological perspective emphasizes the importance of thought processes for understanding behavior?a. Behavioralb. Humanisticc. Socioculturald. Cognitive
2. Which of the following persons would be least likely to emphasize the influence of stimuli and responses on behavior?a. John Watsonb. Carl Rogersc. Rosalie Raynerd. B. F. Skinner
1. Javier wants to know how aggression helps a person adapt to the environment. Which historical approach is Javier emphasizing?a. Structuralismb. Psychoanalysisc. Functionalismd. Humanism
3. Which of the following is not an ethical guideline that psychologists must follow when conducting research?a. Paying participants for their participationb. Informed consentc. Freedom from harmd.
2. Dr. Kwan is performing case study research. She should be most concerned with which of the following ethical principles?a. Deceptionb. Physical harmc. Debriefingd. Confidentiality
1. What is the rule for deceiving participants in a psychological research study?a. Deception is never allowed in psychological research. It is against the law in every state.b. Deception is allowed
5. Dr. Duarte is studying bullying behavior in children.Every day, he goes to the local playground at 3 p.m., sits on the sidelines, and records the number of times one child bullies another, the sex
4. The more hours that students work, the less successful they are academically. This is an example of what type of correlation?a. zerob. positivec. perfectd. negative
3. In an experiment on attitudes, participants are given either positive or negative information about a speaker and then asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaker. In this experiment, which
2. Dr. Hincapie wants to test the hypothesis that stress increases one’s blood pressure. What type of hypothesis is Dr. Hincapie interested in testing?a. Predictiveb. Causalc. Correlationald.
1. When we know that two events regularly occur together, which goal of psychology can be met?a. Predicting behaviorb. Changing behaviorc. Understanding behaviord. Explaining behavior
1.4 Describe how women and minorities have contributed to the field of psychology.
1.4 Describe the training of a psychologist, and compare and contrast the different specialty areas of the profession.
1.4 Distinguish among the seven modern perspectives of psychology and the eclectic approach, and identify the major historical figures that influenced psychology’s development.
1.3 Describe the main ethical principles that guide psychologists as they conduct research.
1.2 Describe the advantages and disadvantages of observational, survey, correlational, and experimental research methods and the types of conclusions that can be drawn about behavior from each method.
1.2 Outline the steps of the scientific method, and distinguish between predictive and causal hypotheses.
1.2 Identify the four goals of psychological research.
1.1 Identify common misconceptions about the field of psychology.
1.1 Define psychology.
=+Do they provide information on standardization or validity? If your scores on the two tests are very different, what might account for this difference?
=+3. Many different intelligence tests are available online, such as www.iqtest.com/. Give this one a try and then do a web search for intelligence tests and see if you get the same results when you
=+describe intelligent people or intelligent behaviors? Do their definitions focus on cognitive ability or other abilities?
=+2. Ask a few friends to define the term intelligent. Do they mostly
=+Don’t hold back—include every possibility that comes to mind.That list represents divergent thinking. Now look over the list.Which of the possible uses are most unusual or most likely to be
=+1. To get a sense of the roles of divergent and convergent thinking in creativity, try the following exercise. First take 10 minutes and jot down all of the uses that you can think of for a
=+3. How does benefit finding relate to physical health and to body function in a variety of illnesses?
=+2. What is cognitive reappraisal?
=+1. What is cognitive appraisal?
=+3. What evidence has neuroscience research provided for a biological foundation of language?
=+2. State Whorf’s linguistic relativity hypothesis and explain why some scholars have criticized it.
=+1. what are the terms for a language’s sound system, its rules for combining words to form acceptable sentences, and the meanings of its words and sentences?
=+3. How does Spearman’s g compare with theories about multiple intelligences?
=+2. What two terms respectively define individuals at the high end and at the low end of intelligence?
=+1. With respect to testing, what do validity, reliability, and standardization mean?
=+What other human characteristics might follow this pattern?
=+4. Notice that in a normal distribution, extremely high and extremely low scores are rare.
=+3. What is the mean or average on the IQ test? Where does the mean fall on the bell-shaped curve?
=+2. If someone’s score was 132 on the test, how many people scored below that person’s score?
=+1. Do most people fall in the low, medium, or high range? How do you know?
=+3. Name at least two biases and two heuristics that affect the quality of our decisions and give an example of each.
=+2. Name and explain the key steps in solving a problem.
=+1. What are four reasons why concepts are important?
=+• How might training datasets be improved to remove bias?
=+• Is it better to use imperfect AI systems or imperfect people to make decisions about people?
=+3. Are these problems best solved by effortful thinking or by just going with your hunches? Explain.
=+2. Do you think these problems capture an important ability, or are they more like trick questions? Why?
=+1. Which of the problems was most difficult to solve? Why?
=+3. In what ways is the human mind superior to computers?
=+2. What technological development gave psychologists a new way to look at the human mind?
=+1. What aspect of thinking did behaviorists see as the proper focus of psychology?
=+Did this exercise change your opinion of the accuracy of eyewitness testimony? Explain.
=+visit the following website:www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sk504Yc94
=+3. It is sometimes difficult to believe that our memories are not as accurate as we think. To test your ability to be a good eyewitness,
=+What time of day? What were the date and year?How many people were involved? When you have done your best to answer these questions, check your facts online. Were your memories accurate?
=+event in recent history, such as a recent natural disaster or the death of a famous person you admired. Then ask yourself some easily verifiable questions about it, such as what day of the week did
=+2. Become a memory detective and explore the accuracy of your own memory for major events. Think about an event for which you might have a flashbulb memory. You might choose from a major
=+How does it relate to your current goals and aspirations? Do you think of the memory often? You might find that this part of your life story can be inspiring when things are going poorly or when
=+ What do you think the memory says about you?
=+1. Write down a memory that you feel has been especially important in making you who you are. What are some characteristics of this self-defining memory?
=+3. What factors are involved in keeping memory sharp as we age?
=+2. What did McAdams mean when he described certain individuals as“generative”?
=+1. What crucial functions does autobiographical memory serve?
=+3. What strategies can help you retrieve essential information when taking an examination?
=+2. Give at least three tips for encoding information and at least three tips for rehearsing information.
=+1. What steps can you take to ensure that your course information is well organized?
=+3. What is the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT)phenomenon, and what does it reveal about how we store information?
=+2. Name four factors that, according to psychologists, may be the cause of retrieval failure.
=+1. What is the term for the failure of information to enter long-term memory?
=+3. Explain autobiographical memory and the reminiscence bump.
=+2. What is the difference between recall and recognition?
=+1. What are the primacy effect and the recency effect, and how do psychologists explain each?
=+3. How do the schema theory of memory and the connectionist network theory of memory differ in terms of their explanation of memories?
=+2. What two kinds of memory are at the top level of long-term memory, and how is each defined?
=+1. How do sensory memory and short-term memory differ in terms of their duration?
=+3. Explain the process of elaboration and its importance.
=+2. How does divided attention differ from selective attention?
=+1. What four encoding processes do not happen automatically but instead require effort?
=+• What responsibility do social media platforms have for stemming the spread of fake news?
=+• What role might age play in the tendency to encode and spread fake news?
=+3. Which memory process is centrally involved when we recall information?
=+2. What three important processes play key roles in memory?
=+1. How do psychologists define memory?
● What is love?
● How does competition affect behaviour?
● How can we explain mob behaviour?
● How do stereotypes inuence the way we perceive ourselves?
● How does isolation lead to extremism?
● How can psychology explain antiimmigration bias?
● How can we reduce conict?
Discuss the following questions with a partner:1. What groups do you belong to?2. What attracted you to these groups?3. What did you have to do (as initiation) to join these groups?
Discuss the following questions with a partner:4. When do you think you were accepted as a member of the group?5. How did membership to the group affect your self-concept and self-esteem?6. Have you
● Make a list of all the types of group that you can think of in existence today that do not fulll the criteria outlined in the above denitions of a group.
Write a newspaper article explaining Gottman’s ndings.No research or studies are needed in this exercise; this is about linking concepts and ideas.Start with a headline, followed by a
The natural sciences are commonly evaluated by their predictive validity, that is, their ability to predict future events given empirical analysis of the past. This is not the case for the human
4. What criticisms do you have of his methods?
● Is love a cultural concept or is it universal?
● Why do some relationships last where others fail?
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”Eden Ahbez (songwriter)It is perhaps the biggest of all understatements to say that love is an interesting and
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