Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

Collection:: Economics Books

V THE PORTABLE LABORATORY One of the first essentials in scientific work of any kind is a laboratory. A laboratory is a place where work can be done under uniform and controlled conditions, and where the apparatus necessary for an experiment can be prop erly set up or stored. Most universities are equipped with a psychological laboratory differing little in general appearance from a physics laboratory. Whenever an ex periment is to be conducted in one of these laboratories, the apparatus is set up and, when preparations are com plete, the subjects who are to be tested are required to come to the laboratory according to a prearranged sched ule. For a time it was considered desirable to establish and equip a similar laboratory to be devoted exclusively to the psychological work of the factory. At first glance, such a laboratory would seem to be in line with the physi cal and chemical laboratories which now form an essential part of every large industry. However, it soon became obvious that such a laboratory was impracticable for factory purposes. It was highly inadvisable to ask a large number of employees to leave their work and come to the comparatively remote point occupied by the lab oratory. Not only would such a procedure have caused a great loss of time, but it would also have made inevi table a disconcerting uncertainty in the arrival of the expected subjects. And yet it was highly desirable to conduct experiments and tests under conditions of a cer

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