Industrial psychology in Great Britain / by Charles S. Myers.

  • Charles Samuel Myers
Date:
1926
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Credit: Industrial psychology in Great Britain / by Charles S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be required of them. They are told (‘there is no hurry’) to make knots in a piece of wool at their own rate. The examiner introduces the effect of distraction by explaining during the test the general purposes of psychological testing. The tests for maximum speed are: i h, IVool, Knotting wool as in the preceding test, but at maximum speed and without distraction. 2. Beads. Threading beads at maximum speed. 3. Pricking with a mounted needle at maximum speed. B. TESTS FOR QUALITY OF WORK. The candidate’s power of discriminating equal dis¬ tances is measured by two tests: 4. Parallel Lines. A sheet of paper is shown to the candidate on which are drawn thirty-two pairs of lines, some of which are exactly parallel and some of which are nearly but not quite parallel. She has to select which pairs are exactly parallel. 5. Bisection. The candidate is given a limited time in which to bisect a given line ‘by eye,’ then to bisect the halves, and then the quarters. 6. Aiming with pencil. The test for hand-and-eye co¬ ordination consist in aiming with a pencil at certain points on squared paper at a given rhythm. 7. Aiming with pin. The test for hand-and-image co¬ ordination is the same as the last, except that a pin is aimed at the points from beneath the paper.