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| Industrial/organizational psychology |
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| A branch of psychology that applies the principles of psychology to the workplace. |
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| Scientist-practitioner model |
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| A teaching model in which students are trained first to be scientists and second to be able to apply the science of their field to find solutions to real-world problems. |
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| The field of study that concentrates on the selection and evaluation of employees. |
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| Organizational psychology |
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| The field of study that investigates the behavior of employees within the context of an organization. |
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| A field of study concentrating on the interaction between humans and machines. |
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| An intelligence test developed during World War I and used by the army for soldiers who can read. |
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| An intelligence test developed during World War I and used by the army for soldiers who cannot read. |
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| A series of studies, conducted at the Western Electric plant in Hawthorne, Illinois, that have come to represent any change in behavior when people react to a change in the environment. |
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| When employees change their behavior due solely to the fact that they are receiving attention or are being observed. |
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| Graduate Record Exam (GRE) |
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| A standardized admission test required by most psychology graduate schools. |
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| Terminal master's degree programs |
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| Graduate programs that offer a master’s degree but not a Ph.D. |
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| A situation in which a student works for an organization, either for pay or as a volunteer, to receive practical work experience. |
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| A paid or unpaid position with an organization that gives a student practical work experience. |
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| A formal research paper required of most doctoral students to graduate. |
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| An educated prediction about the answer to a research question. |
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| A systematic set of assumptions regarding the cause and nature of behavior. |
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| A publication with the goal of bridging the gap between the research conducted by academics and the practical needs of practitioners. |
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| A written collection of articles describing the methods and results of new research. |
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| A collection of articles for those “in the biz,” about related professional topics, seldom directly reporting the methods and results of new research. |
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| An unscientific collection of articles about a wide range of topics. |
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| Research that is conducted in a laboratory setting that can be controlled more easily than research conducted in a field setting. |
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| The extent to which research results can be expected to hold true outside the specific setting in which they were obtained. |
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| Like external validity, the extent to which research results hold true outside the specific setting in which they were obtained. |
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| Research conducted in a natural setting as opposed to a laboratory. |
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| The formal process by which subjects give permission to be included in a study. |
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| Institutional review boards |
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| A committee designated to ensure the ethical treatment of research subjects. |
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| Cause-and-effect relationships |
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| The result of a well-controlled experiment about which the researcher can confidently state that the independent variable caused the change in the dependent variable. |
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| A type of research study in which the independent variable is manipulated by the experimenter. |
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| The alteration of a variable by an experimenter in expectation that the alteration will result in a change in the dependent variable. |
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| The manipulated variable in an experiment. |
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| The measure of behavior that is expected to change as a result of changes in the independent variable. |
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| In an experiment, the group of subjects that receives the experimental treatment of interest to the experimenter. |
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| A group of employees who do not receive a particular type of training so that their performance can be compared with that of employees who do receive training. |
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| Research method in which the experimenter either does not manipulate the independent variable or in which subjects are not randomly assigned to conditions. |
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| Research that involves the use of previously collected data. |
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| Used in meta-analysis, a statistic that indicates the amount of change caused by an experimental manipulation. |
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| A statistical method for cumulating research results. |
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| Used in meta-analysis, a statistic that is the average of the effect sizes for all studies included in the analysis. |
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| A statistic, resulting from performing a correlation, that indicates the magnitude and direction of a relationship. |
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| A type of effect size used in meta-analysis that is signified by the letter d and indicates how many standard deviations separate the mean score for the experimental group from the control group. |
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| The extent to which the results of a study have actual impact on human behavior. |
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| A statistic that indicates the variation of scores in a distribution. |
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| A sample in which every member of the relevant population had an equal chance of being chosen to participate in the study. |
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| A nonrandom research sample that is used because it is easily available. |
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| The random, unbiased assignment of subjects in a research sample to the various experimental and control conditions. |
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| Informing the subject in an experiment about the purpose of the study in which they were a participant and providing any other relevant information. |
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| A statistical procedure used to measure the relationship between two variables. |
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| A third variable that can often explain the relationship between two other variables. |
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