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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IO EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY as that which the body receives at the hands of physi cians. To be sure, it is impossible to dissect the mind as the body can be dissected, and yet, in a way, it is quite possible; for to the psychologist, the mind is first of all the nervous system and the activities which it controls. In order to understand the mind, the psychologist must thoroughly understand that most intricate of all mech anisms, the nervous system. And in order to understand the workings of this mechanism, it is necessary to study not only its structure but its activities as well. The ac tions of people are the best clue to the nature of their nervous system, or their mental make-up. However, the study of these actions must be of a special nature. Not every study of the mind can be called psychology. The novelist, writing a so-called “psychological novel”, may make a very extensive and subtle study of the ac tions and thoughts of the characters which he is portray ing; but such a study would not be considered psychology by a psychologist, any more than the autobiography of an invalid would be considered a treatise on medicine by a physician. The psychological study of the mind applies to human actions the same scientific methods which physics applies to the study of matter, medicine to the study of the body, or chemistry to the analysis of compounds. The true psychology, and the core of facts around which the many nebulous ideas of psychology current to-day are clustered, is this exact psychology, this psychology of scientific methods. What are the applications of this science to the prob lems of employment? Before answering this question it will be wise to consider briefly what we mean by the scientific method; for, if any word is more constantly used and misused than psychology, that word is science.

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