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

XIV THE TECHNIQUE OF GIVING TESTS Psychology, like every other science, has a distinct technique. This technique consists of certain well-defined and accurate methods of procedure. Giving tests, for instance, seems comparatively simple to one who is not familiar with the methods of psychology. However, there are minute details to consider and directions to follow of which the untrained individual has no concep tion. The technique of giving tests, like the technique of the physician and chemist, can be acquired in its com pleteness only by careful study and continued practice. An error in method, so slight as to entirely escape the uninitiate, is likely to render the results meaningless. The care of the chemist in weighing and mixing his com pounds is well known. The psychologist must be even more careful and painstaking, because he is working in the most delicate and sensitive medium known; namely, the human mind. Although the technique of psychology, so far as it has been developed, can be acquired only by years of study and training, there are certain phases of it which the more casual student can learn in a shorter time; just as there are phases of mixing chemicals which one can learn without becoming a fully trained chemist. The purpose of the present chapter is to discuss some of the fundamental and more obvious features of giving tests, such as must be at the command of the employment manager who wishes to give them. 154

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