Which of the following historical events was instrumental in the development of industrial/organizational psychology?

Related Mcqs:

1. The hierarchical organizational structure of Disneyland, with employees working at varying levels of status including food vendors, street cleaners, ride operators and supervisors, represents what type of organizational culture?

   A. Integration
   B. Pluralist
   C. Fragmentation
   D. Differentiation
   E. None of the above

2. Community psychology, health psychology, and neuropsychology are considered which of the following in clinical psychology?

   A. Precursors
   B. Continuums
   C. Inferences
   D. Subspecialties

3. Which one of the following approaches tries to analyze human behaviour in terms of stimulus-response units acquired through the process of learning, mainly through instrumental conditioning ?

   A. Cognitive Approach
   B. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
   C. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach
   D. Existential Approach

4. Which of the following statements applies to instrumental learning?

   A. Instrumental learning is the process by which an animal learns about the relationship between the behaviour and the consequences of that behaviour
   B. Instrumentally trained responses are not entirely elicited by identifiable stimuli
   C. Instrumental learning allows the animal to control the occurrence of environmental events
   D. All of the above

5. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

6. Two historical roots of psychology are ____________?

   A. philosophy and chemistry
   B. philosophy and physiology
   C. Physiology and chemistry
   D. Physiology and physics

7. How might behaviours of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) explained by principles of instrumental learning?

   A. OCD behaviours are naturally learned from biological relatives
   B. OCD behaviours are learned from pairing anxiety-provoking stimuli with common behaviours
   C. OCD behaviours are learned by perceptual processing of anxiety-provoking stimuli
   D. OCD behaviours are contingent upon schedule of reinforcement
   E. OCD behaviours are reinforced and maintained because they reduce anxiety

8. Industrial Psychology is _________?

   A. Theoretical Psychology
   B. Applied Psychology
   C. Educational Psychology
   D. Abnormal Psychology

9. Who became one of the most influential theorists through the development of a ‘historical materialist’ analysis?

   A. Max Weber
   B. Emile Durkheim
   C. Georg Simmel
   D. Karl Marx

10. All of the following are aspect of organizational citizenship behavior except:

    A. Altruism
    B. Responsibility
    C. Generalized compliance
    D. Contextual performance