psyc3309 MCQ exam

The process used by I-O psychologists to develop an understanding of a job by identifying the duties of the job and the KSAOs required to perform the job is called a(n)

Job analysis

Tests that ask questions directly about the candidate's past honesty behavior as well as attitudes toward various behaviors, such as employee theft, can be best described as

Overt integrity tests

Measures of general mental ability do not always guarantee success on the job because...

Some jobs also require physical strength and interpersonal skills.

The Hawthorne Studies led to the dramatic discovery that

Workers' attitudes play a role in productivity.

In recent studies __________________ stressors been shown to have positive relationships with job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

Challenge-Related

Mental ability refers to a person's

Capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems

A person who does not have a great need for other people's approval is described as having a low

Affiliation need

Coronary-prone personality is also known as

Type A personality

Which approach attempts to show that leaders possess certain characteristics that non-leaders do not?

Trait

A system perspective explains accidents as a result of

Active and latent failures

The number of patients a medical intern treated in one day would be measured by _____ measures.

Objective

Questionnaires that assess an individual's Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) assess

Altruism and generalized compliance

The main distinction between the Army Alpha and the Army Beta is...

The Army Alpha was administered to literate recruits, while the Army Beta was administered to illiterate recruits

Human factors is related to and draws on theories and concepts from which of the following disciplines?

All of the above

The type of stress that motivates individuals to work hard and meet goals is called

Eustress

The Time and Motion studies involved all the following except

Investigating employee attitudes about the length of the work week

Who is known for attributing the crash landing of the B-17 bombers to design error rather than a human error?

Alphonse Chapanis

Which theory states that subordinates are categorized into either "in-groups" or "out-groups"?

LMX theory

Cameron is asked during an interview to explain how she would handle a particular situation while on the job. Cameron is most likely taking part in a(n)

Situational interview

All of the following are behavioral consequences of stress except

Fatigue

Leading with integrity and genuineness and not projecting an artificial persona refers to ...

Authentic leadership

Tests used to eliminate candidates who are clearly unsuitable for employment are referred to as

Screen out tests

Role ambiguity and interpersonal conflict are examples of

Psychological stressors

When a rater avoids choosing an extreme score, _____ error may occur.

Central tendency

In the behavioral approach to leadership, consideration is also referred to as...

Interpersonal orientation

Which of the following is not one of the stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?

Reflective

According to the textbook, when people were asked the question: "If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for the rest of your life, would you continue to work or would you stop working?" a majority people reported that

They would continue working.

All of the following are dimensions included in Hofstede's theory of culture except.

Inferior versus superior

Which of the Big 5 personality traits is not positively associated with leader emergence?

Agreeableness

Which of the following types of justice focuses on the fairness of outcomes related to decisions made in the organization?

Distributive

Which type of leadership has a tendency to arise after a crisis or emergency situation?

Charismatic

Which of the following is an example of a tertiary intervention?

An employee seeks career counseling at work

The "in-basket" technique is a type of

Assessment center method

According to the text, research designs in I-O psychology can be broken down into three basic types:

Experimental, quasi-experimental, non experimental

A cognitive ability test that uses 50 items to assess verbal, numerical, and spatial abilities is known as the

Wonderlic Personnel Test

A restaurant waiter has to wait on an extremely rude customer. The waiter maintains a smile and calm tone of voice even though the customer becomes ruder. This is an example of

Surface acting

Melanie takes a test in his Industrial-Organizational Psychology class. Her score will most reflect her:

Declarative knowledge

Observational design and survey design are two types of ...

Non-experiment

Understanding how to perform a task is called:

Procedural knowledge

The acronym "KSAO" stands for

Knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics

The Big 5 personality dimension that best predicts the success of expatriates is

Openness

If a researcher wants to examine whether a test is reliable over a reasonable time period, he or she might

Administer the test to the same people at two different points in time and calculate a correlation coefficient between the scores taken at time one and the scores taken at time two

Dr. Duran, an I-O psychologist, found that as job satisfaction increases, employee absenteeism decreases. This is an example of a ____________ relationship.

Negative

Professor Wee hypothesizes that a person's intelligence will determine how well the person will perform on the job. In this example, intelligence is the

Predictor

According to the textbook, at least part of the way to prevent counterproductive work behavior (CWB) is in:

Selection