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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A FIRST EXPERIMENT 27 tests into operation, both on the part of the girls to be tested and because of the confusion that might be in troduced into the running of the shop. It was feared that the girls might resent the experiment as an infringement upon their personal liberties. However, through perfect frankness in explaining to the girls the exact purpose of the tests, and through the help of the foreman and in structors in removing the air of mystery and suspicion which naturally would surround such an experiment, and through the use of a “matter-of-fact” procedure which took each girl’s acquiescence for granted, but still refrained from the slightest indication of compulsion, it was possible to carry out the entire series of tests without a single un pleasant occurrence. At the outset, an instructor took the girl to be tested from her work and brought her into the room and remained there while the tests were being given; but after a short time, even this precaution was unnecessary. The experimenter became a fixture in the shop and could, without the least embarrassment to the girl, bring her into the experimental room for the tests. Thus, a great deal of time and trouble was spared to the foreman and his assistants. The eight tests chosen for the body of the experiment were as follows: 1. A simple eyesight test with the use of the Lowell chart. 2. A card sorting test. The subject was given a pack of 49 cards, upon the face of each one of which from 7 to 12 letters were distributed promiscuously. Twenty of the cards contained the letter “O” and the rest did not. The subject was asked to sort these cards into two piles, those which had “O” on them and those which did not. The time required for this performance was taken and the

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