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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164 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY practice. This practice should be written up in the most detailed and accurate form, and illustrated with examples so far as possible, so that other examiners, giving the same test and using the same directions, may likewise be giving the same demonstration and thereby obtaining the same standard results. As a supplement to this step, it is always advisable to give the subject a short preliminary trial in the test which he is about to take. Only in this way can the examiner be sure that his directions have been fully comprehended. To the unsophisticated mind, it may seem sufficient if the examiner, after having given the directions as clearly as possible, asks the subject: “Now do you understand?” and, upon receiving the answer “Yes,” proceeds with the test. However, no matter how intelligent the subject may appear, it is never safe for the psychologist to assume that his directions are grasped until he has had an actual preliminary demon stration on the part of the subject showing that they are. Many subjects only think that they understand, when, as a matter of fact, they do not; or they understand the wrong thing. Therefore, it is always advisable to give a very short, but characteristic sample of the test, in order to insure perfect comprehension on the part of the person being examined. This sample should always be of the same length and kind, to insure every subject the same degree of instruction and practice. Sometimes it is impossible to make the directions for a test clear enough. In that case, the difficulty probably lies with the test itself. This was the case in the Bogardus fatigue test described in Chapter X. The number of reactions made possible by this test were so numerous and variable, that it was also impossible to score the results. In such a case, it is necessary either to give up the test of

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