Psychology in the industrial setting
Mr Graeme Hyman
6 points * 2 x 1-hour lectures, 1 x 1-hour tutorial, 1 x 2-hour workshop per week * First semester * Caulfield/Peninsula * Prerequisites: APY2020
Central theme: applied psychology. Psychological assessment and classification: theory and practice of psychological assessment; test construction; concepts of validity and reliability; published tests in print; administration of psychological tests; prediction of performance; limitations of statistical prediction. Education and training: the identification of training needs, developing objectives, course planning, the selection of instructional methods in relation to objectives and learner characteristics, evaluation of learning outcomes. Human factors in industry: human-machine and human-human interaction in industry; the human component in systems; design and development of new systems.
Assessment
Seminar participation/Cumulative, based on short tests, tutorial papers, workshop presentation and participation
Prescribed texts
Murphy K R and Davidshofer C O Psychological testing: Principles and applications 2nd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1991
Smith B and Delahaye R How to be an effective trainer Wiley, 1988