I/O Psychology Program Courses

Personnel Psychology

Personnel Psychology: This course provides and introduction to personnel psychology. Topics include job analysis, performance appraisal, testing and assessment, employee selection, equal employment opportunity guidelines, development and evaluation of training programs.

Human Resource Development: An examination of research findings, methodologies, and evaluation designs for the training and development of personnel in organizations. Specific topics include needs assessment, learning principles and system design.

Advanced Personnel Psychology I: This course covers the topics of job analysis, psychological assessment, criterion development, selection interviewing, performance appraisal, validation, legal issues, and human resource planning.

Advanced Personnel Psychology II: This course in advanced personnel psychology covers the topics of recruitment, classification, utility analysis, training, compensation, organization, assessment and development, career development and consulting strategies.

Human Performance Assessment: This course covers the broad topics of human performance measurement and focuses on issues, techniques and theories. Specific topics include measurement methods, assessment of measurement quality, observational and judgment in measurement, and performance appraisal systems.

Organizational Psychology

Organizational Psychology: This course provides an introduction to organization behavior and theory. Topics include leadership, motivation, small groups, organization structure and environments, organization structure and environments, organization change and processes such as communication and control.

Micro Organizational Psychology: The study of individual and group behavior in organizations. Emphasis is placed on leadership and motivation.

Macro Organizational Psychology: Study of classical and modern organizational models and theories.

Organizational Development and Change: Study of model and theories or organizational change and methods of used to foster organizational development and effectiveness.

Field Research Methods in Organizational Psychology: Study of the design and analysis of surveys, quasi-experiments, questionnaires, interviews, and other methods for studying organizational processes.

Statistics and Research Methods

Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design: Review of basic descriptive and inferential statistical procedures with a heavy emphasis on fundamental and advanced analysis of variance techniques. Topics include contrasts, factorial designs, within-subject and mixed designs, and analysis of covariance. Course materials are covered in the context of classical experimental and quasi-experimental design.

Regression and Correlational Design: Course covers correlation with heavy emphasis on regression analysis in the context of the general linear model. Topics include partial correlations, categorical and continuous interactions, non-linear regression, and multivariate statistics. Course materials are covered in the context of correlational designs and survey research.

Advanced Measurement and Latent Variable Analysis: The course covers fundamental psychometric issues, such as reliability and validity, as well as an applied summary of exploratory factor analysis. In addition, course provides a brief overview of advanced quantitative methods, including item response theory, multilevel regression, path analysis, and structural equation modeling.

Structural Equation Modeling: This course covers the topics of linear structural equation modeling and focuses on estimation, measurement models, confirmatory and hierarchical factor analysis, structural equations, longitudinal models, multisample analyses, and mean structures.

Hierarchical Linear Modeling: This course covers advanced regression or multilevel models used to analyze nested or hierarchical data. Topics include estimation techniques, model building, assumptions and testing, and longitudinal data analysis.

Examples of Course Electives Available

Human Factors Psychology: The application and evaluation of psychological principles and research relating human behavior to the characteristics of design, and the use of the use of the environments and systems within which humans work and live.

Learning and Cognition: An examination of the processes influencing the acquisition and retention of new information.

Advanced Social Psychology: This course discusses the behavior of the human as a member of a group. Topics include attitude theory and change, interpersonal attraction, group dynamics, and related theory and applied research techniques.

Human Computer Interaction: Review of the physical, cognitive, and performance capabilities and limitations of humans as they interact with modern computer systems. Emphasis is placed on the tools, techniques and procedures for the assessment and effective design of computer hardware, software and displays of information.

Theories, Models and Simulations in Human Factors: Survey of the historical and philosophical bases for the use of theories, models, and simulations in human factors applications with a critical evaluation of existing theories, mathematical and cognitive models, and simulations in terms of actual and potential contributions to the field.

Perception: A survey of the phenomena of perception emphasizing the historical contributions, recent methodological development, empirical findings, and an examination of the theoretical positions that have been offered.

Note: Please see the University catalog for a complete listing of available courses. Also, please refer to the I/O Ph.D. Requirements Guide for content areas and suggested course sequences).