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Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
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1. Identify the role of industrial/organizational psychologists in the workplace. (p. 644) |
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2. Identify the types of measures that are commonly used for employee selection and evaluation. (p. 645) |
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3. Compare the validity of various job selection measures. (p. 649) |
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4. Discuss the challenges involved in the fair selection of female and ethnic minority employees. (p. 651) |
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5. Describe the relationship between job satisfaction, happiness, and productivity; identify the strategies that are designed to improve these factors. (p. 653) |
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6. Identify the traits of successful leaders and describe the challenges to women and minorities as they pursue leadership positions. (p. 656) |
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7. Identify the goals of human factors engineering. (p. 657) |
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8. Discuss the contributions of health psychology to the workplace. (p. 658) |
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9. Describe the contributions of psychology to employee training, computer-assisted instruction, and advertising and marketing. (p. 659) |
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10. Identify the field of environmental psychology. (p. 661) |
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11. Discuss the role of environmental psychology in preventing the further destruction of our environment. (p. 664) |
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12. Identify the characteristics of defendants, plaintiffs, and jury members that affect conviction rates. (p. 668) |
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13. Discuss the importance of psychological factors in presenting evidence and in interrogating criminal suspects. (p. 671) |
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14. Identify the activities of educational psychologists. (p. 673) |
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15. Discuss the effects of mastery learning and intelligent tutoring systems on children's education. (p. 674) |
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16. Describe the goals of Project Follow Through and identify its significance to education. (p. 675) |
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17. Discuss the importance of person x situation interaction in the classroom and describe the use of criterion-referenced testing in the classroom. (p. 675) |
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18. Identify the goals of mainstreaming. (p. 676) |