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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28 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY number of errors recorded. The object of this test was to bring out the subject’s ability to pick out the essential element from a more or less heterogeneous collection of elements, and also, in some measure, to bring out the deftness of the subject in handling the cards. These cards were so marked and numbered on their reverse side that, after every test, it was possible for the experimenter to sort them back into their original order and to observe the number of mistakes that had been made. In this way it was made possible for every subject to perform this test in exactly the same manner. 3. The Woodworth-Wells cancellation test (see Appen dix, test number 6). The subject was requested to cross out, with a pencil, every “7”. 4. The Woodworth-Wells “Easy Directions” test. 5. The Woodworth-Wells number checking test, in which the subject was asked to place a check opposite every group which contained both a “7” and a “1” (see Appendix, test number 8). 6. A modification of the tapping test, in which the sub ject was requested to push down, as rapidly as possible, a telegraph key to which was attached a Veeder counter. The number of recorded thrusts over a period of one min ute constituted the record for that performance. 7. A modification of the Whipple accuracy test. This consisted of a brass plate with nine round holes graduated in size from I / 2 inch to l {8 inch in diameter. The subject was asked to take a brass-pointed pencil and insert it into each hole, beginning with the largest and continuing through the smaller ones, until the pointer touched the brass side of one of them. The brass-pointed pencil was wired in circuit with the brass plate containing the holes so that, whenever the brass point touched the side of the

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