Psychological Test, Haines' Alertness Test - Form X
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: According to the directions for this test (see MA.316371.019) Thomas H. Haines, PhD., was the director of the Division of Mental Deficiency of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in New York City. The test itself was published by C.H. Stoelting Company in 1924.
label: Description
content: Thomas Harvey Haines (1871-1951) was born in New Jersey, received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, a PhD. from Harvard (1901) and an M.D. from Ohio State University (1912). He then studied for a time at European medical schools, worked briefly at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital and at Smith College, and returned to Ohio State as clinical director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research and in the medical school. After wartime service as a psychological examiner for the U.S. Army, he moved to the position in New York and also worked in a hospital there.
label: Description
content: The test came in two forms – Form A was for students who could read, form X for those who could not. This is an example of Form X. According to the directions, it aimed to measure “general intelligence of adult illiterates of school children in grades I to IV inclusive and in small rural schools.” Included are a directions test; a scorekeeping test; a maze test; an unfinished pictures test; and an unfinished sentences test.”
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: “Dr. Thomas Haines, a Psychologist, 79,” <I>New York Times</I>, March 3, 1951, p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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 Samuel Kavruck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.151
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.151
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.2 cm x 27.5 cm; 8 11/32 in x 10 13/16 in