TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART I.— HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING AND THE MATERIALS 



OF EXAMINATION. 



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Introduction to Part I 5 



HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING. 



Chapter 1. Preofficial period of preparation for national service 7 



Chapter 2. Official military trial of psychological examining 11 



Sec. 1. Provision of professional personnel 11 



Psychological staffs of cantonments 13 



Sec. 2. Conduct of examining in cantonments 17 



Sec. 3. Special investigations and reports from examining stations 17 



Sec. 4. Relation of psychological examining to classification of personnel in the Army 17 



Sec. 5. Official inspection of psychological examining 18 



Sec. 6. Recommendation for continuation and extension of psychological examining 24 



Sec. 7. Reports of company commanders 25 



Sec. 8. Decision concerning extension of examining 25 



Chapter 3. Period of extension of examining 27 



Sec. 1. Official plan and its approval 27 



Sec. 2. Provision of psychological personnel 30 



Staff of the Division of Psychology 30 



Organization of a school for military psychology 31 



Personnel of the Division of Psychology 36 



Sec. 3. Appointments and promotions in the Sanitary Corps for psychological sendee 41 



Sec. 4. General Orders covering psychological examining 54 



Sec. 5. Provision of buildings for psychological service 57 



Sec. 6. Organization of examining in camps 62 



Camp organization 62 



Relations of psychological to psychiatric service 87 



Relations of psychological to personnel work 90 



Chapter 4. General summary 91 



Sec. 1. Chronology 91 



Preofficial action 91 



Official action 91 



Sec. 2. Favorable and unfavorable influences 95 



Sec. 3. Summary of examining 99 



Sec. 4. Official opinions concerning the military value of examining 104 



Sec. 5. Varieties of psychological service 114 



MATERIALS OF EXAMINATION. 



Chapter 5. Provision of materials for psychological examining 120 



Sec. 1. Examiner's Guide, first revision 123 



Sec. 2. Directions for scoring examination a 148 



Sec. 3. Instructions for scoring and combining tests of individual examination series 149 



Sec. 4. Examiner's Guide, second revision 153 



Sec. 5. Examiner's Guide for Students' Army Training Corps 200 



Sec. 6. Examinations a and b 201 



Sec. 7. Examination alpha 219 



Sec. 8. Examination beta, preliminary form 235 



Sec. 9. Examination beta, form 250 



Sec. 10. Stencils for scoring group examinations 259 



Sec. 11. Individual examinations 259 



Sec. 12. Literacy tests 279 



Sec. 13. Report blanks 286 



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