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

Collection:: Economics Books

92 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY without much previous experience in typing does very well in the substitution test, the indication is that she has the necessary aptitude or potential ability to become a good typist with practice. It is very desirable to engage a candidate of this kind with the view of giving her the opportunity to develop this potentiality for the sake of her future usefulness. It is just as desirable to know when this potentiality is lacking in a typist in order to avoid engaging an applicant upon whom practice and experience will, to a large extent, be wasted. Another test which contributes to this end, particularly in the case of typists using a dictating machine, is the Trabue completion test or the language tests built on this model. Tests of this kind require the subject to fill in the blank spaces left by the omission of certain words and phrases in a sentence, with those words and phrases which will complete the meaning of that sentence. For instance, in the sentence: When the alarm clock. . . .1 immediately.... out of bed, rings and jump obviously make the necessary sense and complete the sentence. It very frequently happens that a typist is confronted by a copy or by a record in which a word or phrase is illegible or unintelligible. In the face of such a situation some typists are quite helpless and can solve the difficulty only after much thought or after making inquiries from their neighbors or superiors. Others are able, by their own sense of the meaning of what has been said or written, both before and after the blank, to supply the necessary words* That is, their sense of context enables them to complete sentences the parts of which are missing. The ability to do this is a very great advantage to the typist, and one which will greatly increase her capacity for good work.

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