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

i68 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY and also the improvement which comes entirely through a familiarity with the tests, it is highly advisable to have alternatives—three or four, if necessary—for every test. These alternatives will be very much like the originals; with such differences as will make it impossible for any one who remembers any details of the first one to profit by this experience in taking the second one. The increasing numbers in which psychological examina tions are being given has made it necessary to pay an increasing amount of attention to the problem of whole sale examination. Until recently, nearly all mental tests were given to one individual at a time, and each indi vidual was allowed as much time as he required to com plete the test. This enabled the examiner to devote his entire attention to one individual. The advantages of this method are obvious. Not only is it possible to give the most careful and immediate directions, but it is also possible to observe any accidental feature which might arise, such as the breaking of a pencil point. However, it has become highly desirable, at times, to give the same test to a group of several subjects at the same time. This method has the advantages and disadvantages connotated by the word wholesale. It makes possible a larger number of examinations in less time, but it also reduces the possi bility of close individual attention on the part of the exam iner. It can not be used with all tests, but only with paper tests, or with tests for which the necessary appara tus can be provided in large quantities. The manner in which group tests, as they are technically known, are given has already been partly described. This method makes it advisable to allow to everyone a limited amount of time, instead of permitting each in dividual to complete the test. For instance, in giving the

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