OK folks, here's a quick 2009 update. Between being laid off, starting a new (better) job, and STILL working on that blasted dissertation, the site cleanup here hasn't gone so well. However, I've recently learned that Google is shutting down their free Google Page Creator service sometime soon (on which this site was built). They've promised to automatically convert all existing sites to a new service, but in the meantime I'm messing around with a couple of options to try to salvage the info here in case the switchover doesn't go well.
The final site may end up HERE: or HERE or perhaps on another free wiki service. Either way though, go ahead and bookmark at least one of those links now before this site dies (even though there's not much content on either of them) - if the site ends up somewhere else, I'll put an announcement on those sites so that you can find it. Hopefully the URL will magically roll over w/ Google's autoconversion and the site will be beautiful... but I'm not counting on it. And as always, feel free to give me a shout, especially if you have a platform or wiki service that you think would work well for static content like this. Happy 2009, and happy studies! ~Anon
This is the study guide I made myself to prepare for my comprehensive exams in a relatively challenging doctoral program in I/O Psychology, which I'll decline to name here. I've posted these materials because I frequently find myself wanting to refer back to it when I'm at work, so really, this site is primarily a selfish endeavor. I've also integrated sections of my comps answers that I use often. I passed on the first try, for what it's worth. Now I only have to write my dissertation. Hah.
If you have accurate, reasonably well-written summaries you'd like to add, feel free to contact me. Please DO NOT contact me to alert me to typos or improvements upon the prose used herein - it's really just a rough study guide and list of random references, it's not a journal pub. And like I said, it's mostly a selfish thing I've got going on here.
The topics are adapted from the list of content areas suggested by The Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in their Guidelines for Education and Training at the Doctoral Level in Industrial-Organizational Psychology ... you'll see I skipped a couple; that was upon the recommendation of my own program, so check with yours to see if they might be so kind as to let you know on which areas you should focus. And duh - don't just rely on this to get you through - take some responsibility!