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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VIII. Psychological tests (concluded)

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY Absolute passivity in spite of urging. Typical remarks: “I can’t.” “How can 1 when you stop meP . Jinn va 0 For other methods of scoring tests of personality, see May and Hartshorne (199). OMNIBUS TESTS If accurate timing is not essential, and if the difficulty of administering the tests must be reduced, a number of tests may be combined into an omnibus test. The items of a number of different tests are included to form the body of the omnibus test, and the directions for all of them are assembled at the beginning of the test form. The subject is given a definite time in which to master the directions for the different kinds of tasks. He is then allowed to work on the test until time is called. This form of test saves time and labor in administering, and has been widely used in intelligence testing. The customary procedure in scor- ing an omnibus test is to compute only a total score on the test as a whole. But if the investigator makes use of such an omnibus test he should get the separate scores for the vari- ous types of items and study their value as if they were separate tests. Omnibus tests require of the person examined one ability over and above the ones measured by the individual tests of which they are composed: that of quick readjustment of mental set or shift of attention from one type of perfor- mance to another. The various types of items may be arranged so as to recur at regular intervals or in apparently haphazard order, but without increasing in difficulty. The test is then called a cycle omnibus test. If the items increase in difficulty with each recurrence of a particular type of task, the test is called a spiral omnibus test. 1From Downey Individual Will-Temperament Test. Copyright 1925, by World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York. 20

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