EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 
Absolute passivity in spite of urging. Typical remarks: “I 
can’t.” “How can 1 when you stop meP  . Jinn va 0 
For other methods of scoring tests of personality, see 
May and Hartshorne (199). 
OMNIBUS TESTS 
If accurate timing is not essential, and if the difficulty of 
administering the tests must be reduced, a number of tests 
may be combined into an omnibus test. The items of a 
number of different tests are included to form the body of 
the omnibus test, and the directions for all of them are 
assembled at the beginning of the test form. The subject 
is given a definite time in which to master the directions 
for the different kinds of tasks. He is then allowed to work 
on the test until time is called. This form of test saves 
time and labor in administering, and has been widely used 
in intelligence testing. The customary procedure in scor- 
ing an omnibus test is to compute only a total score on the 
test as a whole. But if the investigator makes use of such an 
omnibus test he should get the separate scores for the vari- 
ous types of items and study their value as if they were 
separate tests. 
Omnibus tests require of the person examined one ability 
over and above the ones measured by the individual tests 
of which they are composed: that of quick readjustment of 
mental set or shift of attention from one type of perfor- 
mance to another. 
The various types of items may be arranged so as to 
recur at regular intervals or in apparently haphazard order, 
but without increasing in difficulty. The test is then called 
a cycle omnibus test. If the items increase in difficulty 
with each recurrence of a particular type of task, the test 
is called a spiral omnibus test. 
1From Downey Individual Will-Temperament Test. Copyright 1925, 
by World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York. 
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