Books, Handbook of Applied Psychology
date: label: date made
content: 1950
notes: label: Description
content: This wide-ranging two-volume collection of articles is the first handbook prepared by the American Association of Applied Psychology. It gives detailed accounts of specific areas of specialization by practitioners. The book is divided into five groupings. The first, consisting of the first three chapters, discusses general applications of psychology to group living and to individual efficiency and adjustment. The second, chapters four through eight, concerns applications of psychology to industry and to business. The third unit, chapters nine and ten, concerns educational psychology. The next unit discusses clinical psychology, the last the professional relations of psychologists. A list of “Landmarks of Professional Psychology” at the front includes events from Fechner’s <I>Elemente</I> of 1860 to the publication of the <I>Dictionary of Occupational Titles</I> by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1939.
label: Description
content: This copy of the boxed set is from the library of David Shakow.
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.316372.25
label: catalog number
content: 316372.25
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
label: Object Name
content: books
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 26 cm x 20 cm; 2 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in