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

9° EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY In order to minimize the results of unfamiliarity with the machine, the tests finally chosen were confined to the universal keyboard and all catches were avoided. More over, those errors in the copy of the typist which were apparently due to novelty, such as the striking of an “i” for an “o”, were not counted against the applicant as heavily as other mistakes, such as omitting a word or a punctuation mark. Another test chosen to give to typists was a spelling test. The first step in devising this test was to select representative letters and forms from the correspondence of the company. These samples were then gone over and those words which were most frequently misspelled were selected and made up into a series for test purposes. A number of the words, purposely misspelled in character istic fashion, were mingled with words correctly spelled, and the applicant was asked to check off those which were incorrectly spelled. The written method was chosen be cause it is much quicker and more comprehensive than the oral method. However, it frequently happens that an individual is unable to spell a word correctly or recog nize its correct spelling until he writes it down. In order to meet this condition, those words incorrectly spelled on the test sheet which were not checked by the subject, and those correctly spelled which were checked, were read aloud to the subject and she was requested to write them down correctly. In this way, the possibilities of error were greatly reduced. It may be said that a typist does not necessarily have to be a good speller because she has the words before her. This assertion does not take into consideration the mental mechanism which copying in volves. Copying is more than a merely photographic process. It involves learning and memory. An individual

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