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

8 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY possess some infallible formula, some unfailing ritual. Among the American Indians, the medicine man was a powerful physician who, by dancing wildly and beating loudly on a drum, was able to frighten off the evil spirit which had taken a temporary abode in the patient’s vitals. At a later day, and not altogether beyond our own memory, medicine consisted largely of home remedies. Sage tea, bitters, avoidance of the night air, a rabbit’s foot—these and many other cures and preventives are within the memory of the present generation. Although some of these primitive home remedies oc casionally proved useful they were, in general, a de cided failure. Their failure was due to the fact that their use did not rest upon a scientific knowledge of the human anatomy and of the exact effects upon the body of certain drugs and expedients. The physician of that day knew little about the mechanism of circulation, respiration, and digestion. His cures were due more or less to shrewd guesses. To-day the guessing method has been largely if not entirely displaced, and a scientific method has taken its place. A physician to-day would not think of examining a man without registering his exact temperature, using a stethoscope on his heart and lungs, taking his blood- pressure, counting his pulse, making a urinalysis, etc. All of these measures are tests, and it is by means of these accurate tests that the physician is enabled to pronounce a reliable verdict on a man’s bodily condition. Medicine is still far from being a perfect science, but it is at least so far perfect that its general superiority over the older methods is universally conceded. Psychology, like medicine, has had its evolution. The early Greeks thought the mind a fine essence or a very subtle gas, which animated the body with its presence.

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