Lecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture I. N/A Outline of Current Lecture II. Eras of I/O psychology III. Trends in I/O Psychology over time Current Lecture II. Eras of I/O psychology a. Infancy i. Era 1:1876-1930s ii. Wilhelm Wundt: Father of experimental psychology; thought that psychology should be treated as a science iii. Hugo Munsterberg: Father of industrial psychology; looked at how people perform at work, what skills are necessary for different jobs, and the questions people had about their work. e.g. why are people injured at work and how do we fix it? iv. Army Alpha & Beta 1. First instance of psychological testing 2. Looked at what jobs to give to recruits in the army 3. Research teams developed tests to determine high and low ability 4. The alpha was a basic standard intelligence question framed to be army questions 5. The beta was a nonverbal tests for recruits in WWI because many were illiterate PSY 3711 1st Edition These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best !used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. !b. Change in focus i. Changes due to the Hawthorne Studies suggesting that researchers can get a result because someone is excited to be in an experiment ii. Attitudes impact the way people perform iii.The I of I/O is focused on measurement and assessment of individual persons iv. The O of I/O is focused on creating an effective environment because people aren’t just machines and their feelings and beliefs influence their work c. Rapid growth i. Post-war boom and the civil rights movements ii. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 determined it to be unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against an individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. These practices include hiring, firing, compensation, conditions of employment, providing references, access to training, and access to labor organizations. d. Cognitive revolution and modern I/O i. Looking inside the “black box” ii. What are people thinking at work? How do those thoughts impact the way people perform? iii.Increased focus on globalization with international research iv. Until 1960, the thought was that relationships between variables were specific to the situation. Researches did a lot of local validation studies to see how variables changed in specific situations. But these small samples create many different distributions and the differences between each local sample is largely due to sampling error. Since then samples have gotten bigger. III. Trends in I/O Psychology over timea. Presently the topic of studies looked at by I/O psychologists are job satisfaction/attitudes, work groups/teams, performance appraisal, organizational culture and climate, and behavior, prediction of process, outcomes. b. Studies are becoming more complex and sophisticated. In this way they are more likely to use newer and more complex procedures like factor analysis, structural equations modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, item response theory, and latent growth