Certificate of Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Unit 1 – Introduction

• Free will versus determinism
• Developmental and interactive expressions of behaviour
• Nature versus nurture
• Influence of environment on learning behaviour
• Modelling and conformity
• Conditioning involves certain environmental factors which encourage learning to take place
• Classical conditioning
• Operant conditioning
• Reinforcement and punishment

Unit 2 – Understanding the employees thinking

• Sensation and perception
• Thinking and day dreaming
• The gestalt approach
• Unconscious and conscious psychic elements
• Explaining behaviour
• Knowledge of brain processes
• Personal interpretation of a given situation
• Terminology including: mating, curiosity, maternal, acquiring, repulsion, constructiveness, rivalry, laughter, fighting, walking, swallowing, play, imitation, sleep, modesty, domineering, religion, self asserting, sneezing, thirst, cleanliness, workmanship, parenting, food seeking, flight, collecting, sympathy.

Unit 3 – Personality and temperament

• Mature & immature temperaments (e.g. Sanguine, melancholic, choleric, phlegmatic)
• Emotional types
• Fear
• Intelligence
• Knowledge
• Deviation, etc

Unit 4 – Psychological testing

• The application form
• Psychological test
• The interview
• Intelligence tests
• Laws of learning
• Devising tests
• Selecting appropriate tests

Unit 5 – Management and managers

• Qualities of managers
• Understanding morale
• Discipline
• Training, etc

Unit 6 – The work environment

• Noise
• Space
• Light
• Temperature
• Speed of Work, etc.
• Accidents
• Breakages
• Fatigue etc

Unit 7 – Motivation and incentives

• Maslow’s model of self-actualisation
• Security
• Money
• Ambition
• Companionship
• Social reinforcement
• Labour wastage, etc

Unit 8 – Recruitment

• Ways of seeking applicants
• Types of interview
• Ways of selecting staff

Unit 9 – Social considerations

• Group behaviour
• Conformity
• Industrial groups
• The Hawthorne effect

Unit 10 – Abnormalities and disorders

• Psychosis
• Neurosis
• Personality disorders
• Variance
• Partial disability (e.g. Arm, leg injuries; epilepsy, digestive disorders etc.)
• The psycho neurotic

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