Tests in Clinical Practice.

Abstract

In these days, when mental tests are being given by the thousand in schools and colleges and institutions, there is grave danger that the individual and the individual method of examination will be overlooked. It is the author's purpose to emphasize the importance of studying each individual as well as to give in detail the technic involved in the use of mental tests. The practical point of view of the author resulting from his rich clinical experience, coupled with sound psychologic knowledge and thorough acquaintance with the mental test literature, gives the book a distinct value. The book includes a detailed analysis of the technic involved in the clinical use of some of the more common tests of general intelligence; a chapter on a "method of memory examination adapted to psychotic cases," and discussions of word association tests, of the relation between vocational adjustment and psychometric methods, and of other