13^ REPORT OF THE PSYCHOLOGY COMMITTEE 



tremely regrettable that such trial could not have been made, 

 for the high percentage of correct judgments reported by 

 Marston strongly suggests the probability of the practical 

 serviceableness of blood pressure tests in connection with 

 trial for military offence, 



13. Committee on Adaptation of Psychological Instruction 

 to Military Educational Needs. — Late in August, 191 8, the 

 Chairman of the Psychology Committee received information 

 from the Chairman of the Section on Relations with Educa- 

 tional Institutions that psychology would be listed as an 

 "allied subject" of instruction in the Students' Army Train- 

 ing Corps. This information carried with it the suggestion 

 that a training course in psychology suitable for use in the 

 S. A. T. C. be prepared. 



Following a conference on this subject, attended by mem- 

 bers of the Committee on Education and Special Training of 

 the War Department, members of the Psychology Committee 

 of the National Research Council, and representatives of the 

 American Psychological Association, the Chairman of the 

 Psychology Committee appointed the following subcommittee 

 to prepare appropriate methods for the Committee on Edu- 

 cation and Special Training: J. W. Baird, E. K. Strong, Jr., 

 L. M. Terman, E. L. Thorndike, G. M. Whipple, and Ray- 

 mond Dodge, chairman. 



This committee faced the task of arranging immediately 

 for a training course in psychology which should conform to 

 the general policies of the War Department committee. 



Members of this subcommittee were promptly summoned 

 to Washington for conference and it was decided to recom- 

 mend the following three courses: I. The study of human ac- 

 tion; II. Educational psychology; III. The psychology of 

 reason. Each course was planned for a term of twelve weeks 

 with three recitations and six hours of study per week. 



The course entitled the "Study of human action" was 

 carefully planned by the Committee in accordance with the 

 experience and opinions concerning military needs set forth 

 below. 



It is believed that the psychological principles which 



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