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 *39 Mr. W: Well, I confess that I had something of the same opinion from the beginning; but I wanted to find out specially what you, as a practical employment man, and our more inexperienced and, as we thought, more theoret- lc al, psychologists thought about the subject. I expected to find some disagreement between the two viewpoints but I was very pleasantly surprised. We began this dis cussion by saying that the one most important fact about an applicant was his intelligence, and we defined intelli gence in general as the ability to learn. All the other definitions seemed to boil down to that. But now we seem have agreed that there is no such thing as general intelligence, and that, if there were, it would be of little use to us in employment work because we are interested in s pecific abilities or kinds of intelligence and not in degrees intelligence per se. Is that a fair statement of the argu ment? Mr. L: Yes, it suits me. Mr. W: In that case I can only repeat the sentiment Much you attributed to me a few minutes ago, Mr. Lam- er t. This is certainly an age of specialization. Miss N: Yes, Mr. Williams; and that is just the point.

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