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 II. Trade tests and other applications of employment psychology

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THE OBSERVATIONAL METHOD 24I that a skin of fine texture indicates a mind of fine texture and consequently an intellectual mind. The scientific fact advanced to support this view is that the brain is originally an ingrowth of the skin. This is true. However, it by no means follows, because the skin of the embryo turns inward and later develops into the nervous system, that there is any functional connection between the two. To say that a fine skin betokens a fine mind is nothing more than a pretty play upon words. Scientists are agreed on the fact that there are certain broad mental functions which are localized in fairly definite parts of the brain. We know, for instance, that certain motor areas are located along the fissure of Ro lando, and certain kinsesthetic sensory areas in the same tegion. Other areas are also generally defined. However, these areas refer to regions in the brain and not bumps on the head. Moreover, no scientist has as yet established a definite relation between specific parts of the brain and specific mental, moral, and emotional qualities, such as initiative, will-power, and artistic temperament; and cer tainly not between such traits and physical characteristics as the color of the hair and the position of the eyes. These facts are entirely in the field of conjecture. If any fact stands out as prophetic of future developments, it is the fact that the mind or nervous system is so interwoven and integrative in its action that definite locations for definite or rather indefinite personal qualities will never be found. Sherrington’s work on “ The Integrative Action of the Nervous System ” is a great contribution toward estab lishing this fact. It follows, therefore, that the funda mental assumption on which the so-called science of observation rests is an assumption entirely unwarranted by the facts. (Note. A more complete discussion of this

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