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

158 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY exciting the applicant through the inflections which he places upon such critical words. He should say these words monotonously, rather than in a way which will suggest a violent push from behind. And in order still further to avoid the state of emotion suggested by the word^o it has been our practice to use the word “start" instead. This word serves the purpose perfectly and is free from the significance of the word go. This may seem like a very trivial detail. However, experience has dem onstrated the importance of just such details, and before there can be any thoroughgoing uniformity in the pro cedure of giving tests, there must be perfect agreement, both theoretical and practical, in details of this nature. The time which the applicant occupies in taking tests need not be an empty time for the examiner. In fact, the expert examiner is usually busiest while waiting for his subject to finish a test. Besides watching the stop watch, and being on the alert for any signs of faltering on the part of the subject, he can be preparing the next test or correcting the test which has just been completed. The correcting of tests is one of the most irksome parts of the psychologist’s work. Therefore, if he can do it while he is actually conducting an examination, he will not only save a great deal of time and labor in the future, but he will also have the results of the examination ready almost as soon as the applicant has completed the tests. Many devices and short cuts are used to facilitate the process of correcting tests, such as making out correction keys, and using cardboard stencils which, when laid on the test, will cover up all but the parts which must be examined. These are only a few of the many details in the complicated technique which the psychological examiner must acquire. Closely allied with this particular point is the use of the

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