PSYC 187 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Random Assignment, Performance Appraisal, Descriptive Knowledge
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Types of io psychologists: performance appraisal, promotion, transfer, and termination. Personnel psychology: addresses issues such as recruitment, selection, training, Organizational psychology : combines research and ideas from social psychology and. Human factors/ engineering psychology : study of the capacities and limitations of organizational behavior humans with respect to a particular environment. Scientist-practitioner model: emphasis on application of knowledge, science and practice are. Siop: primary professional membership org for io psychologists. Needs to be grounded in scientific method. Horizontal cultures: like to minimize distance between individuals. Vertical cultures: accept and depend on those distances. Quasi-experimental: have a treatment or conditions still, but not random assignment and each person may experience both conditions. Helps identify context for behavior in question. Quantitative: numbers based, the industrial psychs result in numbers (strong preference for this) Qualitative: flow and narrative based (observations, interviews, case studies, etc) Go back to the different types of validity.
