The will-temperament and its testing / by June E. Downey.

  • June Downey
Date:
1923
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    Commenting on motility as an element in the hu- Motility in , _ . child’s make- man make-up, beashore says: up It is extremely interesting—to interpret the work and play of the child in such terms, noticing how this fact of slow, average, or quick motility not only accounts, in large part, for his achievements in work and play, but also serves as a key to his interests, his ambitions, and in many respects to his feelings and sentiments with reference to his environment.1 In the individual form of the will-temperament Speed of test, speed of movement is measured by the time index of speed ’ r J % of movement? taken to write the phrase “United States of America”; the mean of two trials is used. Tendencies to a retarded or a premature reaction to signals should be recorded. In the group form of the test, the number of letters written in twenty seconds is employed as a measure of speed of movement. In both the indi¬ vidual and the group form of the test, size of writing is ignored in giving the score. This introduces a * slight error in the scoring, since the correct but im- practicable procedure would be to calculate the time per millimeter of graphic movement. The most serious question that can be raised con¬ cerning the use of graphic speed in the test is that which asks whether rapidity of handwriting is, in any way, an index of general speed of movement. In another connection the author has shown that graphic speed is, in fact, symptomatic of general bodily speed of movement.2 It has, furthermore, 1 The Psychology of Musical Talent, pages 173 ff. 2 Graphology and the Psychology of Handwriting, Chapter 7.
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