Volume 2
Manual of mental and physical tests : in two parts a book of directions compiled with special reference to the experimental study of children in the laboratory or classroom / by Guy Montrose Whipple.
- Guy Montrose Whipple
- Date:
- 1921
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Manual of mental and physical tests : in two parts a book of directions compiled with special reference to the experimental study of children in the laboratory or classroom / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tanner (11) and Miss Manchester (8), employed it for the study of the community of ideas of men and women, Flournoy (5) for the study of the effect of environment, present and immediately past, upon the course of association, and Binet (1) for the study of individual differences in intellectual processes. In a modified form (test of 60 words in 3 min.) it appears in the Binet-Simon Scale (Oh. XIII). Materials.—-Stop-watch. Blank forms containing numbered spaces for 100 words. [The seconds-elock.] Method.—Give $ these instructions : “When I say ‘now,’ I want you to start in with some word, any one you like, and keep on saying words as fast as you can until you have given a hun¬ dred different words. You may give any words you like, but they must not be in sentences. I will tell you when to stop.” E starts the stop-watch at the command ‘now’ and writes on the prepared form the words spoken by 8. With mature 8% it may be pos¬ sible to get nothing more than scant abbreviations for the more rapid portions of the series, but these may be filled out subse¬ quently. The points at which 8 makes distinct pauses may be noted on the form. At the 100th word, stop the watch and record the time. If time permits, and 8 can do so, it is advisable at once to go over his series, not only to fill out the list of terms, but also to make marginal notes of all the intermediate links and subsidiary associative processes that he can recall. Variations of Method.— (1) For group tests, E should pro¬ vide each 8 with a blank. He'may allow 3 min. for writing, and rate speed in terms of number of words written (method fol¬ lowed by Pyle, 10), or each 8 may record his own time for writing 100 words by the aid of the seconds-clock for group tests. The latter procedure is recommended rather than the former. When 8 does the writing, the method resembles that of the users of it discussed below, but the standard method of oral naming is best. (2) Instruct 8 to keep his eyes closed during the test. This variant is to be preferred for individual testing, at least with adults; its effect is commonly to reduce the speed of naming and to lessen the number of terms suggested by objects visible in the room where the test is administered.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817407_0002_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
