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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THE PORTABLE LABORATORY 67 uncertain in their reactions than material substances; therefore, mere external uniformity in procedure, or stand- nrdization of laboratory technique and conditions, is by no means a guarantee that characteristic or typical reactions Wl h follow. For this reason it may be undesirable to construct a factory laboratory which will place the sub ject under conditions too different from the conditions of the place in which he is accustomed to work or undergo uis normal reactions. No one should understand the com plexity of this problem better than the psychologist him- Se lf- As a student of sensation and habit, he can readily understand that what he may consider & nice, quiet place ! Tla y be, to the man accustomed to the continuous clank- ln g and grinding of machines, a place howling with strange an d fearful sounds. There are times when nothing makes So much noise as silence. This question, together with a great many others, must e considered by those conducting psychological experi ments under factory conditions. The portable laboratory v mch has been described is by no means a final or com prehensive one. However, as compared with a permanent ^oratory such as is used in universities, it is a vast im- P lQ Vement. The stationary laboratory, except as a place 111 which to develop and store apparatus, possesses and minifies all the difficulties mentioned. To recapitulate, ^ makes it necessary to bring subjects long distances ° m the shop in which they are working, thus involving a v cry considerable loss of time. The portable labora- . 0t 7 °bviates this difficulty by going to the shop in which proposed subjects are at work. Secondly, the sta- °Uary laboratory makes it difficult to secure the right ut) Jects at the right time. Psychologists who have tried universities to get students to report at the laboratory at

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