Examples of Industrial Psychology in the following topics:
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- Industrial and organizational psychology is the scientific study of employees, workplaces, and organizations.
- Industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology is a relatively young field.
- The roots of I–O psychology trace back nearly to the beginning of psychology as a science, when Wilhelm Wundt founded one of the first psychological laboratories in 1876 in Leipzig, Germany.
- Industrial psychology began to gain prominence when Elton Mayo arrived in the United States in 1924.
- Industrial-organizational psychologists look at questions surrounding workplace issues.
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- Behaviorism initiated a focus on the psychological and human factors influencing workers.
- Mary Parker Follett, Hugo Munsterberg, and Elton Mayo are all considered pioneers and founders of the industrial/organizational psychology and behaviorism movements in management theory.
- Munsterberg's writings are considered the genesis of the field of industrial psychology.
- Industrial psychology, according to Munsterberg, focuses on topics such as hiring workers with personalities and mental abilities best suited to certain types of vocations, as well as on ways to increase motivation, performance, and retention.
- His research includes the Hawthorne studies and his book The Human Problems of an Industrialized Civilization (1933).
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- Psychology is a very broad field, and there are many career options available for graduating students of psychology.
- Clinical psychology involves the study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and treating psychologically based dysfunction.
- Forensic psychology is concerned with the application of psychological methods and principles to legal questions and issues.
- Careers in health settings can vary widely and include health psychology (sometimes called health-and-wellness psychology), occupational-health psychology, and medical psychology.
- Neuroimaging has been helpful in many areas of psychology, particularly in the subfield of biological psychology.
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- Simply put, psychology is the study of the soul.
- Developmental psychology studies human development over the lifespan.
- Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the justice system.
- Industrial and organizational (IO) psychology focuses on the study of people within the workplace.
- Define the overarching goal of psychology, and discuss the various goals of the different subfields of psychology.
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- British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3, 21-29.
- Unorthodox Thoughts on the Nature and Mission of Contemporary Educational Psychology.
- Educational Psychology Review, 8(4), 397-417.
- Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 34, 5-28.
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- The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22 percent to close at 1738.42, the largest one-day decline since 1914, eclipsing even the famous October 1929 market crash.
- The Brady Commission (a presidential commission set up to investigate the fall) the SEC, and others blamed various factors for the 1987 debacle -- including a negative turn in investor psychology, investors' concerns about the federal government budget deficit and foreign trade deficit, a failure of specialists on the New York Stock Exchange to discharge their duty as buyers of last resort, and "program trading" in which computers are programmed to launch buying or selling of large volumes of stock when certain market triggers occur.
- It said it would restrict program trading whenever the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell 50 points in a single day, and it created a "circuit-breaker" mechanism to halt all trading temporarily any time the DJIA dropped 250 points.
- In the early 1990s, the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 3,000, and in 1999 it topped the 11,000 mark.
- Swings of more than 100 points a day occurred with increasing frequency, and the circuit-breaker mechanism was triggered on October 27, 1997, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 554.26 points.
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- Industrialization moved the production of many household items from local communities to centralized factories.
- Factories established during the Industrial Revolution introduced mass-produced goods to sell their products to a wider market.
- By the 1940s, manufacturers began to recognize the way consumers were developing relationships with their brands in a social, psychological and anthropological sense.
- Some people distinguish the psychological aspect of a brand from the experiential aspect.
- Psychological aspects include thoughts, feelings, perceptions and images associated with the brand.
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- Industrial and organizational (I–O) psychologists use a variety of measures to select applicants who are the best fit for a position.
- Discuss the importance of personnel selection and recruitment as seen from the perspective of industrial and organizational psychology