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I/O Psych Exam 2 UCF
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/23/2016

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The most basic human need according to Maslow's hierarchy
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Physiological needs
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The three elements of Vroom's expectancy theory
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Valence, instrumentality, and expectancy
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Theory which employees compare their ratio of inputs to outputs to the ratio of a referent other and is motivated to make to two equal
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Equity theory
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In Vroom's Expectancy Theory, this is the element that determines whether or not an employee believes they will achieve the desired outcome for their efforts
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Expectancy
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Social persuasion, mastery experiences, and modeling
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Ways to develop self-efficacy
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Autonomy, skill variety, task significance, task identity, and feedback
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The five elements of Hackman & Oldham's Job Characteristics Model
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Theory that states that dissatisfaction is affected by hygiene factors, while satisfaction is affected by motivator factors
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Herzberg's 2-Factor Theory of Motivation
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Type of motivation that is driven by enjoyment of the task and is most closely assocaited with the actual work individuals do
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Intrinsic motivation
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These can decrease intrinsic motivation
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External rewards
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Performance is a function of motivation x ability, minus this
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Situational constraints
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Affective, normative, and continuance
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The types of organizational commitment
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Choosing to stay with an organization because of an emotional attachment
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Affective commitment
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Twin studies helped to prove that job satisfaction has the type of component
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Genetic component
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Rise in job satisfaction that occurs for the first few months after an employee is hired
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Honeymoon effect
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Three components of an attitude
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affect, cognition, and behavior
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Exercise helps with stress because it produces these chemicals in the brain
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Serotonin and endorphins
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A way to describe patterns of work withdrawal
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Progression hypothesis
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The first study that discovered the Hawthorne Effect increased the amount of this in the workplace
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Lighting
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A technique that increases self-efficacy where an individual succeeds at a task and feels confident in their skills
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Mastery experience
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Severe chronic feelings of time urgency that negatively affect one's lifestyle
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Hurry sickness
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Discrete emotions positioned around a circle
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The affective circumplex
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The regulation of emotional expression
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Emotional labor
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Managing one's feelings while trying to feel the emotions required by the job
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Deep acting
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Personality trait most associated with negative affectivity
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Neuroticism
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Intense reactions to stimuli that interrupt cognitive functions
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Emotions
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Type of stress that motivates individuals to work harder and meet goals
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Eustress
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Alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion
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The stages of General Adaptation Syndrome
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Role stressors
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Role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload
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Absenteeism, accidents, and workplace violence
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Behavioral consequences of stress
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Low control and high demands lead to this type of job according to Karasek's Demand/Control Model of Stress
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High stress jobs
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This is also known as coronary-prone personality
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Type A personality
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Define Locus of control
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A construct that refers to whether or not individuals believe that what happens to them is within or beyond their control
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What level of stress management technique is the practice of mindfulness?
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Secondary
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Roy Disney quote discussed in class
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"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
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The center on UCF campus where students can go for help if they feel overwhelmed with stress
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CAPS
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What is depersonalization?
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Burnout that occurs when individuals become hardened by their job and tend to treat clients or patients like objects
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What is emotional exhaustion?
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Burnout that occurs when individuals feel emotionally drained by work
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What is low personal accomplishment?
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Burnout in which individuals feel they cannot deal with problems effectively and understand or identify with others' problems
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What are challenge-related stressors?
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Work demands or circumstances that, although potentially stressful, have potential gains for the individual
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What are hindrance-related stressors?
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Job demands or circumstances that tend to limit or interfere with an individual's work achievement
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What is role conflict?
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Stressor that occurs when demands from different sources are incompatible
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What is role ambiguity?
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Stressor that occurs when employees lack clear knowledge of what behavior is expected in their jobs
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What is role overload?
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Stressor that occurs when an individual is expected to fulfill too many roles at the same time
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Myths of motivation
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Money myth, one-size fits all myth, progress myth, and the silver bullet
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Define learning (mastery) goal orientation
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Orientation in which individuals are concerned with increasing their competence for the task at hand; they view errors and mistakes as part of the learning process
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Define Performance Prove goal orientation
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Orientation in which individuals are concerned about doing well in training and being evaluated positively. Do things they are already good at to prove themselves
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Define Performance Avoid goal orientation
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Orientation in which individuals are concerned about doing well in training and being evaluated positively. Avoid doing things that are risky
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Define display rules
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Code of emotion expression in the workplace
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Hormone released in the brain due to stress
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Cortisol
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Stress model picture of a deflated hamburger
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Cybernetic
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Person-job fit
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Skills match
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Person-organization fit
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Values match
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Progession of burnout
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Emotional exhaustion -> Depersonalization -> Low personal accomplishment
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What are the current trends regarding job satisfaction?
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The percentage of satisfied workers is about the same in most countries, few people report dissatisfaction with their jobs, and there is fairly low correlation between overall satisfaction and performance
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Relationship between quantity and quality of goals in goal-setting theory
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If high quality goals are set, quantity decreases. If high quantity goals are set, quality decreases
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