Psychological Test, Goddard's Investigation of Children's Habits
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content: This booklet is eight pages long. In the upper right hand corner, Shakow’s name is written in ink. Next to it is written in pencil: “Goddard’s investigation of children’s habits.” According to the instructions, “Parents very probably know many things about children that scientists have not yet discovered. The purpose of the questions asked in this paper is to secure and classify some of this information in such a way as to make it more useful to both groups.” The first seventy questions list “forms of child behavior as to seriousness,” and asks the test taker to rank, on a scale of one to ten, if the behavior is of “no consequence” or is “very serious.” The next page lists sixty questions related to “how seriously, or unfavorably…the following forms of adult behavior affect the child.” The following page lists fifty questions where the test taker is supposed to indicate the appropriate age at which a child should start various activities such as having roller skates, going to public dances, and going to the movies alone. The final page has a line of pencil through it and says “omit.” It asks information about the test taker’s sex, age, occupation, marriage, and children.
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content: Henry Herbert Goddard helped bring mental testing to the United States. Thus, this collection is useful for people interested in the history of mental testing and understanding networks between Goddard and other social scientists.
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content: Reference:
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content: Leila Zenderland, <I>Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing</I>. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Shakow
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: MA.316371.014
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content: 316371.014
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content: 316371
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content: psychological test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm; 8 15/32 in x 10 13/16 in