PSYCHOLOGY 375 - SAMPLE TEST - S98

1. "Scientific management" and designing work environments to fit persons is represented in which modern area of I/O Psychology?

     a. personnel selection

     b. human factors engineering

     c. human relations

     d. organizational

     e. consumer

2. In the development of Industrial Psychology, the first major area of application was made by Walter Dill Scott in:

      a. working conditions

      b. pay systems

      c. selection of salesmen

      d. job satisfaction

      e. efficiency

3. The major advantage of naturalistic observation is:

      a. the precise control of the relevant variables

      b. its repeatability and verifiability

      c. that it is the least expensive of research methods

      d. that the results can be more readily generalized to the real world

You have conducted an experiment designed to investigate the effects of classical music piped into a factory on accident rate.  Match the appropriate variables with their names.

      a. independent variable

      b. dependent variable

      c. control or confounding variable

4. music

5. hearing ability

6. number of accidents

7. sex of the employee

8. A key overriding theme of scientific research methods and social science research is:

      a. applicabilityd.

      b. relevance

      c. objectivity

      d. prediction

9. A job analyst might get information about jobs from all of the following sources except:

      a. direct observation

      b. aptitude and achievement tests

      c. personal interviews

      d. survey questionnaires

10.The most persuasive reason for continuing to use employment interviews is that they are:

a. the best we have

b. fairly valid

c. something an applicant and the company would miss if eliminated

d. used by 95% of companies

11. A selection interview would most closely predict which one of the following criteria/outcomes?

      a. quantity of work

      c. productivity

      d. turnover

12. In the famous Hawthorne studies, workers became more productive because:

      a. they knew they were being observed

      b. the lighting was increased

      c. they were given longer breaks

      d. they thought they would receive a large bonus

posted 9-22-98