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

144 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY limited scope of verbal tests is becoming more and more apparent. The reason for this is that the vast majority of industrial occupations do not depend so much upon verbal agility or the gift of words, as upon ability of hand, eye, foot, trunk, and combinations of these. This does not mean that the activities involved in these occupations do not require mental agility. As a matter of fact, they frequently require intellectual ability of an extremely high type. However, the kind of mental agility involved is not necessarily the kind which expresses itself in a fluent use of words. Scientists, for instance, or inventors may be very poor in verbal tests and yet highly remarkable for their ability to formulate scientific laws or devise in tricate and ingenious mechanical devices. Many a tool- maker or draughtsman is very slow in naming the op posites to a list of words such as that given, but very quick in setting up and turning out a difficult piece of work or in making a complete drawing from a rough sketch. To the unbiased mind of the layman, instances like these are probably too obvious to need elaboration. But even the psychologist, setting out with a penchant for verbal tests, is bound to see in time their comparative insignificance when applied to a vast majority of human activities. Looked at from another point of view the verbal tests described are entirely too general to be of much value in differentiating between the various abilities required by the various kinds of work. Verbal tests as used hitherto have been aimed at the discovery of general in telligence rather than specific abilities. The so-called Trabue Language Scale is a good example of this tendency- However, agility in the use of words is only one kind of ability and is by no means synonymous with general

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