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:: III. Criteria of vocational success

Collection:: Economics Books

44 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY brakes. However, he loses his presence of mind and there is a collision. 4. A type in which the driver has an accident because of a lack of foresight. He is never conscious of the possible movements of other vehicles or pedestrians. He can drive all right, does not take chances, does not get abnormally excited in emergencies, but merely lacks the ability quickly to size up a situation which is at all out of the ordinary. This is the driver who, for example, because there is no obstructing traffic, comes speeding down a street, beside which several small children are unconcernedly playing. One of them steps in front of him and is injured. In sizing up the street situation, this driver should have taken into account the children on the sidewalk. In traffic he may run into the rear of the car ahead because he does not foresee from the movements of the other cars and the entire situation the possibil- ity of that car stopping suddenly. When “riding the meter” (riding in front with the driver) with all types of drivers I discovered that good drivers invariably possessed this ability to see ahead, to feel what the other person is going to do. s. A type due, for lack of a better mame, to physiological defects. Here is the driver whose reaction time varies consider- ably from the average, who is easily distracted, has an abnormally short range of observation, or poor ability to estimate the speed of objects as well as the distance between moving objects, or who has little muscular resistance. These five types are those with which the psychologist is con- cerned. In addition, there are a sixth, seventh, and eighth type of accident. 6. A type due to physical defects, or disease of various forms. We had nothing to do with the prevention of this type of accident inasmuch as the medical staff of the Yellow Cab Company passes on all applicants. 7. A type due to a temporary prepossessing idea. The driver who has domestic difficulties or sickness in his family is subject to these accidents. His mind at moments instead of being on his driving is occupied by these difficulties. T he welfare department aims to prevent such cases. 8. A type which is unavoidable. This is the accident due to such causes as a sudden breaking of the steering gear, or unusually bad street conditions, such as icy pavements on which, no matter how much care is taken, an accident is likely to occur. There are others in this class, too—accidents which it is not possible for LL

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