IO psychology

[LadyHalcyon]

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Why is this a part of the EPPP? Aren't most IO psychologists exempt from licensure? Also, APA does not require a class on IO for their accredited programs. I'm confused.

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[WisNeuro]

Meh, it's a small part, and the questions were pretty easy from what I recall.

 

[WisNeuro]

Also, haven't they pretty much taken most of this out?

Edit: Looks like they're still in there, just spread out in other relevant sections. I wouldn't worry too much about these, though. These were pretty much gimme questions as long as you'd looked over the material once or twice.

 

[123EW]

I found this to be the most useful part of the EPPP. With the exception of some ethics questions, the rest of the test was recall information.

Studying I/O helped me to conceptualize who I was as an emerging supervisor and what type of supervisor I wanted to be with regard to employee motivation.

 

[LadyHalcyon]

It's not so much that I'm concerned about learning the material (although it IS completely foreign to me and the other material is not); @WisNeuro you are correct in that it is not a substantial part of the exam. I am just confused as to why it is included. Is it because IO psych used to be more predominant? Maybe it's just my area but i don't know one single IO psychologist

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[LadyHalcyon]

I found this to be the most useful part of the EPPP. With the exception of some ethics questions, the rest of the test was recall information.

Studying I/O helped me to conceptualize who I was as an emerging supervisor and what type of supervisor I wanted to be with regard to employee motivation.

Maybe it will be helpful, although for what I want to do I am doubtful (I do hope I'm wrong).

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[LadyHalcyon]

Also, haven't they pretty much taken most of this out?

Edit: Looks like they're still in there, just spread out in other relevant sections. I wouldn't worry too much about these, though. These were pretty much gimme questions as long as you'd looked over the material once or twice.

My prep materials have an IO domain. On the baseline exam I scored a 29% in that domain. Woo hoo!

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[Ollie123]

In certain unusual circumstances, I think IO psychologists were required to get licensed in the past so it may be a holdover from those days.

There are tons of IO psychologists out there though, so not knowing a function of your particular experiences.

I think it is on there for the same reason that a lot of the material is on there. It is a test of reasonable foundations of broad-based knowledge that defines "psychologist" which makes sense given its a growing and fairly popular subfield. Some areas of IO are actually extremely relevant to certain aspects of clinical practice (work-life balance, burnout, training), though I can't say I remember whether those were on the exam. Makes about as much sense to me to include as some of the more nuanced social and cognitive stuff. I can't say disentangling the 7-8 different theories of identity development with roughly 95% overlap that I think I memorized has much relevance to my clinical practice either...

 

[LadyHalcyon]

In certain unusual circumstances, I think IO psychologists were required to get licensed in the past so it may be a holdover from those days.

There are tons of IO psychologists out there though, so not knowing a function of your particular experiences.

I think it is on there for the same reason that a lot of the material is on there. It is a test of reasonable foundations of broad-based knowledge that defines "psychologist" which makes sense given its a growing and fairly popular subfield. Some areas of IO are actually extremely relevant to certain aspects of clinical practice (work-life balance, burnout, training), though I can't say I remember whether those were on the exam. Makes about as much sense to me to include as some of the more nuanced social and cognitive stuff. I can't say disentangling the 7-8 different theories of identity development with roughly 95% overlap that I think I memorized has much relevance to my clinical practice either...

Oh yeah...the identity models with the same stages but different names. Fun times.

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[WisNeuro]

It's not so much that I'm concerned about learning the material (although it IS completely foreign to me and the other material is not); @WisNeuro you are correct in that it is not a substantial part of the exam. I am just confused as to why it is included. Is it because IO psych used to be more predominant? Maybe it's just my area but i don't know one single IO psychologist

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I've seen several clinical psychologists who also do significant aspects of program evaluation and QI work as part of their jobs. It can be helpful, if you want it to be.