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

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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 131 but maybe we can help out by giving you a few synonyms or brief definitions of the word. I am sure that Mr. Lam bert could do that. For my part, I should like to suggest Cental alertness, the ability to analyze a situation and also to follow instructions. Mr. L: I suppose that does cover the ground pretty Well, only I should say that intelligence was simply ability to learn—to catch on or take hold as the foremen would say. Miss N: And would you apply these definitions to all intelligence whatsoever? Mr. L: Yes, I should. Except, of course, that there ar e degrees of intelligence just as there are of everything e lse. Still I believe that all intelligence can be boiled down to ability to learn. Miss N: Then what would you say to a case like this? ^ v ’hen I taught school, I had some children who were very good in arithmetic. They could learn to do a problem in half the time usually required by the slower pupils of the class. They seemed to have a special faculty for catching as you termed it, or for taking hold of arithmetic. And yet, these very same pupils, when it came to geography, s bowed the utmost denseness. On the other hand, I had Pupils who were very good in geography and very poor in arithmetic. Now which of these pupils would you call t be more intelligent, Mr. Lambert, those who could learn ari thrnetic best or those who could learn geography best? . bdR. L: I don’t think that I should call either more }utelligent. I should simply say that each group was ’Utelligent, but in a different way. Miss N: That is exactly what I thought, and that is the Problem which always confronted me in my school work. tver y pupil seemed to have his own peculiar aptitudes.

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