Journal of Applied Psychology

Salner, E.; Remmers, H. H.

doi: 10.1037/h0069938pmid: N/A

Courses in sociology tend to attract students with liberal attitudes. There is a rise in liberality at the end of a course in sociology, as measured by Harper's "Social Study." Scores on Harper's questionnaire correlate .73 ± .03 with grades in sociology and .45 ± .05 with intelligence. "In general the study seems to point to a possibility of measuring the so-called "intangibles' in college courses such as changes in ideals, attitudes, or beliefs, which students are generally presumed to assimilate."

Hilden, A. H.

doi: 10.1037/h0075159pmid: N/A

Re-test of 433 children ranging in age from 6 to 13 years and in IQ from 50 to 100 shows that the personal constant is a "more accurate expression of the rate of mental development" than the intelligence quotient. Correlation between first and second test for PC and IQ respectively are + .83 ± .101 and + .77 ± .132. A review of literature on the constancy of IQ and PC is included.

Elderton, M.

doi: 10.1037/h0073279pmid: N/A

No distinct relationships appear between scores obtained on drawing a map and imagery tests. "Objective" and "subjective" methods of scoring the maps correlate .33 ± .03.

Ford, A.

doi: 10.1037/h0069926pmid: N/A

An apparatus is described using only one camera for photographing and projecting three dimensions.

Pressey, S. L.; Pressey, L. C.

doi: 10.1037/h0074796pmid: N/A

A comparison of results on the Pressey Interest-Attitude Test reveals no significant differences in emotional age or emotional retardation for groups of Indian children with varying degrees of admixture of white blood. According to norms based on white children the Indians are retarded emotionally about two years. "These results are in accordance with most of the more recent work on Indians, which stresses the importance of environment over heredity and throws some doubt upon the existence of true biological differences except in physical characteristics between races."

Eells, W. C.

doi: 10.1037/h0070211pmid: N/A

The average IQ's on the Stanford-Binet test for three native races of children in Alaska––Eskimo, Aleut, and Indian––are 73.67, 80.27, and 78.88; and on the Goodenough scale for measuring intelligence by drawings the average IQ's are 89.56, 93.29, and 91.55. There is a tendency for the IQ on both of these tests "to increase progressively with additional admixture of white blood." The mental ability of these racial groups seems to rank above full-blood American Indians and southern negroes.

Fritz, R. A.

doi: 10.1037/h0071133pmid: N/A

The correlation between A. C. E. Psychological Examination and a teachers' aptitude test (elementary and high school) is .732 ± .013. These two tests correlate respectively .527 ± .048 and .629 ± .041 with college marks.

Drake, Raleigh M.

doi: 10.1037/h0070351pmid: N/A

Various definitions of musical talent are briefly cited. Musical memory (Drake) and pitch and tonal memory (Seashore) are the only tests out of a group of 20 which have "satisfactory coefficients in both validity and reliability."

Broom, M. E.; Bramkamp, J. D.

doi: 10.1037/h0075371pmid: N/A

The Terman group test of mental ability, Pressey X-O test, MacNitt introversion-extroversion test, Woodworth-Matthews P. D. sheet and a specially constructed rating form for citizenship traits and attitudes were given to 122 boys and girls in the 7th and 8th grades. "Insofar as citizenship is concerned the best combination of traits seems to be mental ability above average, low emotional affectivity, emotional stability, and introversion."

Omwake, K. T.; Loranz, M.

doi: 10.1037/h0074073pmid: N/A

Experiments conducted with 20 college girls indicate that "the ability to wake at a specified time is a special ability, exercised more effectively by some than others." Subjects most confident in their ability to wake were most successful. For the successful group of 10 subjects an average of 49% wake within 30 minutes, 30% within 15 minutes, and 10% exactly on time. "Attempting to wake at a specified time disturbs sleep." After 4:30 the per cent of wakings is much larger than before 4:30.