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When you have studied this chapter, you should be able to:
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Identify the role of industrial‑organizational psychologists in the workplace. |
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Identify the types of measures that are commonly used for employee selection and evaluation. |
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Compare the validity of various job selection measures. |
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Discuss the challenges involved in the fair selection of female and ethnic minority employees. |
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Describe the relationship between job satisfaction, happiness, and productivity; identify the strategies that are designed to improve these factors. |
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Identify the traits of successful leaders, and describe the challenges to women and minorities as they pursue leadership positions. |
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Identify the goals of human factors engineering. |
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Discuss the contributions of health psychology to the workplace. |
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Identify the field of environmental psychology, including the architectural design of living units. |
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Describe the issues and challenges related to sustainability and environmental protection. |
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Identify the characteristics of defendants, plaintiffs, and jury members that affect conviction rates. |
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Discuss the importance of psychological factors in presenting evidence and in interrogating criminal suspects. |
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Identify the activities of educational psychologists. |
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Describe the goals of direct instruction. |
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Describe the goals of Project Follow Through and identify its significance to education. |
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Discuss the effects of mastery learning and intelligent tutoring systems on children's education. |
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Discuss motivated learning and criterion-referenced testing in relation to education. |
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Identify the goals of mainstreaming. |