Object Details
- author
- Moss, Fred A.
- Hunt, T.
- Omwake, Katharine T.
- publisher
- Center for Psychological Service
- Description
- During the 1920s American psychologists proposed a wide range of tests for use by employers and educators, including examinations for aptitude for various occupations. George Washington University psychology professors Fred August Moss (1893-1966) and Thelma Hunt (1903-1992) prepared this test with Katharine T. Omwake (1902-1993), who had received her undergraduate (1924), masters (1925) and doctorate (1928) from George Washington and was on the faculty at Agnes Scott College in Georgia.
- The test is in five parts. The first ranks judgment in social situations. Each question raised is given four possible answers. The subject is to check the answer that represents “the most nearly correct” answer. Other parts of the test concerned memory of names and faces, observation of human behavior, observation of human behavior, recognition of the mental state of the speaker, and sense of humor.
- References:
- American Psychological Association, 1962 Directory, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p.339, 511, 539.
- Moss, F. A. and T. Hunt, “Are You Socially Intelligent?" Scientific American, August 1927, 137, # 2, pp. 108-10. The article outlines results of the test but does not describe its contents.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samuel Kavruck
- 1930
- ID Number
- 1990.0034.114
- catalog number
- 1990.0034.114
- accession number
- 1990.0034
- Object Name
- Psychological Test
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Psychological Tests
- Record ID
- nmah_692403
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1d84-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
