Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 173623112X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112923

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Author:: Bingham, Walter Van Dyke http://d-nb.info/gnd/123042593; Freyd, Max

Title:: Procedures in employment psychology

Place of publication:: Chicago & New York

Publisher:: Shaw

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XI, 269 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Psychological tests

Collection:: Economics Books

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY CLASSIFICATIONS OF TESTS A classification of tests helps to make clear precisely what the investigator is attempting, and what he may and may not hope to accomplish. Bases of classification include the purpose of the test, the ability measured or type of response called for, the appara- tus or material used, the procedure or technique, and the restrictions which the technique places upon the response. Purpose. The purpose of a vocational test is to provide a record of achievement in a standardized task bearing a close relationship to future performance in an occupation. The test should then attempt to measure either the present occupational ability of the applicant or his capacity for acquiring this occupational ability. A suggested classifi- cation on this basis. follows. 1. Proficiency tests: Measurement of present occupational ability. 2. Prognostic tests: Measurement of potential ability; dis- closure of latent talent. A. Special abilities such as those revealed by an analysis of the occupation. B. General abilities, such as leadership, salesman- ship, planning, intelligence. Ability measured. Since abilities themselves are difficult to classify, it follows that a classification of tests on the basis of abilities cannot be entirely satisfactory. Some com- pilers of tests have grouped them under time-honored psy- chological categories such as the following: 1. Sensory abilities: sight, hearing, pressure, warmth, cold, pain, taste, smell, kinesthesia, equilibrium, organic sensations Limits of sensitivity, lower and upper Thresholds of discrimination Quality Intensity Duration QO

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