
Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods
by Leta Stetter Hollingworth Harry L. Hollingworth
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About This Book
This book has developed from the material presented in a course on "Psychological Tests in Vocational Guidance and Selection" which the writer was invited to conduct in Teachers' College, Columbia University. The widespread interest in vocational psychology which has grown up in recent years, the eagerness with which even the most superficial and absurd systems of "character analysis" are being adopted and tried out, and especially the lack of references, offering conservative evaluation, to which inquirers may be directed, have made it seem advisable to publish the material in systematic form...
Chapters (410)
- THE CONDUCT OF MIND SERIES
- EDITED BY
- JOSEPH JASTROW
- VOCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- VOCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- ITS PROBLEMS AND METHODS BY
- H. L. HOLLINGWORTH
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- VOCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- CHAPTER I
- MOTIVES AND ANTECEDENTS OF VOCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- VOCATIONAL EFFORTS OF PRIMITIVE MAGIC
- THE PRACTICES OF MEDIEVAL CLAIRVOYANCE
- MODERN PERIOD OF GUIDANCE AND SELECTION
- THE METHODS OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
- CHAPTER II
- THE SEARCH FOR PHRENOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOGNOMIC PRINCIPLES
- THE RISE OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
- THE ASSUMPTIONS AND ERRORS OF PHRENOLOGY
- THE PSEUDO-SCIENCE OF PHYSIOGNOMY
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
- ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF TESTS
- GRADED INTELLIGENCE SCALES AND NORMS
- CHAPTER IV
- THE PSYCHOGRAPHIC METHODS
- THE INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOGRAPH
- THE VOCATIONAL PSYCHOGRAPH
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V
- SPECIALIZED VOCATIONAL TESTS AND METHODS
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI
- SELF-ANALYSIS AND THE JUDGMENT OF ASSOCIATES
- THE SELF-ANALYSIS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
- THE JUDGMENT OF ASSOCIATES
- TABLE 1 Variability in Judging Different Traits
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII
- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SELF-ANALYSIS, ESTIMATES OF ASSOCIATES AND THE RESULTS OF TESTS
- TABLE 2 Error of Self-estimates Compared with Error of Judgments of 24 Associates
- TABLE 3 Showing Constant Tendencies Toward Overestimation (+) and Underestimation (-) of Self
- TABLE 4 Constant Tendencies of Self-estimation in Thirteen Traits
- TABLE 5
- TABLE 6 Showing the Relation between Estimated Traits and (a) the Results of Mental Tests; (b) the Academic Records of Each Individual In College Subjects (All coefficients are positive unless otherwise indicated)
- TABLE 7 Showing the Correlations between Various Measures of Intelligence
- TABLE 8 Showing the Relation Between Judicial Capacity and (a) Ability in Mental Tests; (b) Academic Records
- TABLE 9 Showing the Relation between Ability To Judge Others and Ability To Judge Oneself
- TABLE 10 Showing the Intercorrelation or Estimated Traits(1)
- TABLE 11 Showing the Intercorrelations among Grades in Eight College Subjects, on the Basis of the Records of the 50 Students
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM AS A VOCATIONAL TEST
- Correlation between Marks in the Grades and Marks in First High School Year
- TABLE 12 Showing the Relation between First-term Marks in High School and the Length of Time Pupils Remain in School (Van Denburg)
- TABLE 13 Showing the Relations between High School Records and University Records (Smith). See Text for Explanation
- TABLE 14 Showing the Relation between Records in the First High School Year, and Records in Subsequent Years in High School and College (Smith)
- TABLE 15 Correlations (Smith)
- TABLE 16 Showing Relations between Entrance Records and College Standing (Jones) See Text for Explanation
- TABLE 17 Showing the Relation between College Honors and Inclusion in Who's Who (Nicholson) See Text for Explanation
- TABLE 18 Showing the Correlation between School Standing and Salaries Earned in Later Life (Rice) See Text for Explanation
- TABLE 19 Rice's Data Presented in a Revised Form
- TABLE 20 Showing Relation between Course Elected in College and Honors Received in Subsequent Years in Professional Schools (Lowell)
- TABLE 21 Showing Relation between College Honors and Honors in the Professional Schools (Lowell)
- TABLE 22 Showing Relations between Various Academic Records (Lowell) Men Graduating from the Law School and Receiving "Cum Laude" in Law
- Men Graduating from the Medical School and Receiving "Cum Laude" in Medicine
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IX
- THE DETERMINANTS OF VOCATIONAL APTITUDE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER X
- THE VOCATIONAL APTITUDES OF WOMEN
- Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Ph. D.
- Bellevue Hospital, New York City
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XI
- THEORY AND PRINCIPLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AS APPLIED TO VOCATIONAL ANALYSIS
- TABLE 23 Showing the Average Correlation of Each Test with All Others, at Various Points in the Curve of Practice
- TABLE 24 Showing the Correlation of Ultimate Capacity with Capacity at Different Points in the Curve of Learning (See Text for Explanation)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XII
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR VOCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- TESTS, BLANKS, STANDARDS, FORMS
- EARLY COLUMBIA TESTS
- Laboratory of Psychology of Columbia University Physical and Mental Tests
- Early Columbia Tests
- NORMS AND STANDARDS
- Psychophysical Norms Physical
- Mental Tests
- GRADED SCALES
- Trabue Language Scale C(1)
- Trabue Language Scale K(2)
- Suggestions Toward a Vocational Psychograph
- Thorndike's Proposed Tests for the Measurement of Intelligence of Adults
- Miscellaneous Empirical Tests
- Following Instructions Test
- Mixed Relations
- Cancellation Test
- SUBSTITUTION TEST
- SOURCES FOR TESTS
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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