Psychological Test, Revision of Army Alpha Examination. Form A
date: label: date made
content: 1925
name: label: author
content: Bergman, Elsie O.
label: publisher
content: Psychological Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: During World War I, a team of American psychologists developed a program for testing the mental capacity of U.S. Army recruits. Soldiers who spoke English and could read took a test called Group Examination Alpha (for an example, see 1990.0334.01). This is revised version of that test, prepared by the psychologist Elsie Oschrin Bregman (1896-1969).
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content: Born in Newark, New Jersey, Elsie Oschrin attended Barnard College, graduating in 1918. She married metallurgist Adolph Bregman the following year, took his last name, and also began working at Macy’s department store developing a pioneering program for testing store employees. Bregman also continued her studies, completing a doctorate at Columbia University in 1922 that would be published as <I>Studies in Industrial Psychology</I>. From 1924 to 1934, she worked at the Psychological Corporation, which published this version of the Army Alpha. Bregman then went into private practice in New York.
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content: Reference:
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content: “Dr. Elsie Bregman, Psychologist, Dead,” <I>New York Times</I>, July 26, 1969, p. 25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Gold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0710.06
label: accession number
content: 1989.0710
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0710.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in