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Army Training Corps as promptly as possible. The sections 

 of this course were assigned as follows: Section i, Dodge; 

 Section 2, Thorndike, Terman, and Strong; Section 3, Strong, 

 Section 4, Hall; Section 5, Lindley; Section 6, Whipple. The 

 editor of the Psychological Bulletin agreed to publish this 

 text-book material. Sections i, 2, and 6 have already ap- 

 peared. It is planned to complete the preparation of this 

 material and, if the demand justifies it, to reprint the entire 

 course as a volume. 



The plans and materials for this course represent in a most 

 interesting and valuable way the results of contact with psy- 

 chological military problems and the attempt of psycholo- 

 gists to adapt themselves to a new and unexpected practical 

 demand. 



14. Psychological Service Rendered the Division of Military 

 Intelligence. — Request for psychological assistance in the se- 

 lection and training of scouts and observers was received both 

 by the Division of Psychology and also by Whipple of the 

 Psychology Committee from the Chief Intelligence Officer of 

 an Army Division. In response to this request, advice and 

 definite suggestions concerning methods were offered by Whip- 

 ple, and the chairman of the Psychology Committee conferred 

 with the intelligence officers of the War Department in order 

 to formulate the chief psychological problems of the Division 

 and arrange for their solution. 



The Division of Military Intelligence later requested the 

 assignment of a psychologist, in the military service, to pre- 

 pare training tests to be used in the schools for intelligence 

 officers. Major Watson and Captain Bentley were assigned 

 to the task. They jointly prepared special tests which have 

 been fully described in a chapter of the "Combat Intelligence 

 Manual" of the War Department. 



The materials of this chapter, including the tests, were 

 selected and arranged for general instruction, special training, 

 and as a basis for selection. The purpose of the several exer- 

 cises presented is to test and develop visual, aural, and men- 

 tal acuity. 



The first few paragraphs of this chapter will serve to indl- 



