Manual of mental and physical tests : a book of directions compiled with special reference to the experimental study of school children in the laboratory or classroom / by Guy Montrose Whipple.
- Guy Montrose Whipple
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Manual of mental and physical tests : a book of directions compiled with special reference to the experimental study of school children in the laboratory or classroom / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in order from 1 to 20, one at a time, to look them over at your leisure, and to tell me (or write down on a numbered blank) what things you can see in each blot. Try them in different positions. Ot course, these blots are not really intended to be pictures of anything, but I want to see whether your imagination will suggest pictures of things in them, just as you sometimes try to see what objects you can make out of clouds.” Let S take his own time. Especially with younger S’s, it is better for E to record the results, so that S may be perfectly free to enumerate as many things as are suggested to him. Kirkpatrick used only four blots, and allowed each pupil one minute to name as many associations as possible for each blot. Miss Sharp used 10 blots, and allowed only 5 minutes for the test. The test may be conducted with a group of S’a by distributing the cards, and having them passed successively from member to member of the group until each S has written his associations for each card, but this method has obvious disadvantages. (b) Shorter procedure. Following the method used by Dearborn, arrange the 20 cards face down in a pile, with the 20th card at the bottom, the 1st at the top, and the numbered edges toward S. Instruct S as follows: “Each of these 20 cards has on it an odd- shaped ink-blot. When I say ‘now,’ turn over the first card in this way [illustrating the movement that will expose the face of card No. 1 with the numbered edge toward $]. Look at the ink-blot, without turning the card in any other position, and say 'now’ (or tap on the table) as soon as you have thought of some- thing that the blot resembles. Of course, the blot is not really intended to be a picture of anything, but I want to see whether your imagination will suggest some 'picture’ in it, just as you sometimes try to see what object you can make out of a cloud.” Give the command ‘now’; start the stop-watch at the same time. When S gives his signal, stop the watch, record the time and the object or association given by S. Continue in the same manner with the remaining cards. Treatment of Data.—In the full procedure, the score is based upon the average or total number ol associations: in the shorter procedure, upon the average speed of the single associations. It is also possible to form some estimate, in either case, of the type,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28083179_0457.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
