Exam 2: Research Methods in Industrialorganizational Psychology

One problem with using self-report techniques of data collection is that subjects may give socially desirable answers rather than truthful answers.

An I/O psychologist discovers that as job satisfaction increases, absenteeism decreases. This is an example of

A negative correlation coefficient indicates that

The primary advantage of the experimental method is that

Informed consent refers to participants' being paid for their research participation.

Extraneous variables need to be controlled as much as possible when conducting scientific research.

Describe the basic and applied goals of I/O psychology.

Another name for the median is the "average."

An advantage of examining more than one independent variable at a time is

The first step in conducting research is to

The dependent variable is the variable that is

Which of the following is an example of a negative correlation?

In an experiment investigating the effects of alcohol consumption on the ability to operate a punch press machine

Discuss the issue of sampling in research, including examples of random and stratified sampling.

An hypothesis is

A 1970s re-analysis of the data from the original Hawthorne studies revealed that the Hawthorne studies were a model of good social scientific research methods.

Dr. Io wants to apply the findings of her laboratory research on teamwork to a particular work organization, a beach resort and restaurant on the island of Kauai. Dr. Io's biggest problem is likely to be

External validity is concerned with whether obtained research results will generalize to other settings.

A characteristic of a normal distribution of scores is that

A field experiment in I/O psychology is one which is conducted