Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1690009462

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-101382

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Weber, Heinrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/11716383X

Title:: Forstwirtschafts-Politik

Place of publication:: Neudamm

Publisher:: Neumann

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: X, 324 S; Taf

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweiter Haupt-Teil. Die deutsche Forstwirtschaft

Collection:: Economics Books

THE TECHNIQUE OF GIVING TESTS 157 After the preliminary test has been given, the regular tests should follow continuously, and the results be re corded. Here again, unless the utmost care is exercised, difficulties are likely to arise. Take, as an example, the matter of starting tests. Before beginning a test, it is necessary to give some kind of starting signal. The word go is a very simple and commonly understood word, and suggests itself readily for this purpose. Nevertheless, this little word is full of danger, as a momentary consider ation will make clear. The examiner may finish his direc tions to the subject for a given test with the following ■Words: “Now, at the word go, turn over the sheet and do Just what you have been told. Do it as carefully and as Quickly as possible, but do not rush. Ready? Go!” Whereupon the subject will rush through the test with the speed and nervousness of a sprinter who has been set off by a pistol. The words ready and go, harmless as they seem, are associated with all the tenseness and excitement °f a race, and consequently tend to induce, by suggestion, the same state of tenseness and excitement in the mind of the person being tested. Even if the examiner does not utter them in the sharp tones of one starting a race, the effect is likely to be the same. Instead of preserving the calmness which has just been induced in the subject, they induce another state of nervousness, possibly more acute than the preceding one. There are times when it ls desirable to promote such a state of mind and to obtain a result which is based upon frantic effort. However, for the purposes of employment, it is much more desirable to obtain a characteristic result, one which conforms more Uearly to the applicant’s ordinary state of mind and speed °f motion. Therefore, the examiner should be careful to avoid

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