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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Pfji ■ A'h'jVA'WX; *34 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY And what do you think this definition adds to that of Mr. Lambert and Mr. Williams? Miss H: I am afraid it is just as vague and ambiguous. It doesn’t seem to say anything at all about ability to learn in a special way or in a particular subject, which is what you have just been talking about. Still, not all psychologists give this definition. , There is a later school of applied psychologists who define intelligence in a way which I am sure will meet your requirements. Mr. L: And what way is that? Miss H: Well, I can’t seem to remember that they exactly define intelligence. They measure, rather than define it. By means of tests such as the Binet-Simon series and other intelligence tests they can tell pretty accurately how much intelligence a person has. Mr. L: Oh, yes. I have heard about the intelligence tests. They used them in the army very extensively- And the Binet-Simon series is used in many schools. But are we not using the same tests here? Miss H: Not any more—except that we make occa sional use of the Binet-Simon scale. Mr. W: Indeed? Please tell us a little more about the Binet-Simon tests, Miss Hurlbut. What are they like? Miss H: Well, they require a person to repeat sentences that grow longer and longer; and numbers of increasing size. And they ask questions as to what you would d° if you were late to an appointment, or what path a cannon ball would take if shot from one level to another; and the difference between words like poverty and misery, evolu- tion and revolution; and the meaning of words in a long vocabulary; and a great many other things. There nr® different tests for every age. The vocabulary test is th e

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