Pamphlet, The Worcester Form Board Series
date: label: date made
content: 1925
name: label: author
content: Shakow, David
label: author
content: Kent, Grace Helen
notes: label: Description
content: Grace Helen Kent (1875-1973) spent the years from 1922 to 1926 as a psychologist at the Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts. Kent had previously written on the use of geometric puzzles in psychology and also developed a word association test while working under A. J. Rosanoff at the Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane. In Worcester, she and psychologist David Shakow (1900-1981) sought to develop a version of the form board that would be suitable for clinical psychologists who needed to carry their equipment some distances to examine patients. They thought the form board suited to “immigrant, feeble-minded and psychotic subjects because of its self-explanatory nature” and also interesting enough to appeal to normal subjects.
label: Description
content: In 1925, Shakow and Kent published this description of the Worcester form boards in the journatl <I>Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology</I>. For a Worcester form board (though not precisely of the form described), as well as further information, see MA.316372.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316372.36
label: catalog number
content: 316372.36
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 17.5 cm x 25.5 cm; 13/32 in x 6 7/8 in x 10 1/32 in