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I-O psychologists are guided by the APA ethical code. When a member violates the code, APA can

Which of the following is NOT a major activity of an I-O professor?

Becky has finally finished her degree in I-O psychology! What are the three most common settings in which she would be most likely to work?

Most members of SIOP come from which areas of the world?

An I-O psychologist administers a survey to employees about their feelings about the company, promising confidentiality. After seeing the results, the management of the company demands to know which employees were critical of the company. The psychologist complies with the demand and identifies those employees. In which way did the psychologist behave unethically?

Scientific Management was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by____________ as an approach to handling production workers in factories.

The largest subfield of psychology is

As an I-O psychologist you are hired by an organization to study the effects of lighting level on optimal performance in their factory. You decide to conduct this study by taking your subjects to a special room in which lighting levels can be changed. You vary lighting levels and measure productivity. In this case you would be replicating which classic study in I-O psychology?

Erin is applying for a job at a major fast food chain. What type of psychologist is most likely to have developed the employee selection procedures, training sessions and performance appraisal system that she will be subjected to?

The first I-O psychology text, written by Hugo Munsterberg, was entitled: