ON ANTllHOrOMETRIC INVKSTUiATIOX IN TllK lilUTISIl ISLES. O-JO 



."5. Scope of njij»-ehfinsion (i.e. capacity of apprehending complex 

 relations and multiplicity of detail). 



4. Intensity oj application to mental tasks (i.e. powei' of concentrating 

 the attention ; this may l)e taken to Ijg inversely as the readiness witli 

 wliich attention is distracted by irrele\ant objects and imj^i'essions) : 



(a) Spontaneous or non-voluntary. 



(b) In virtue of effort of will. 



5. Caparity of sustained application [i.e. of sustaining and repeating 

 concentration of attention upon given tasks = 'perseverance') : 



(a) Spontaneous. 



(6) In virtue of eflPort of will. 



6. Width oj field and intensity of natural or spontaneoiis interests 

 (i.e. natural keenness upon a wide range of topics, or great keenness upon 

 some few topics, or upon one only — intensity of interest Ijeing taken as 

 compensatory to restriction of the field, and vice versa). 



7. Xative ' retentiveness ' of memory, expressed by accurate retention 

 of facts sporadically acquired or committed to memory by rote leai-ning. 



8. Systematic and selective memory (i.e. retention of facts in virtue of 

 the apprehension of their connection with some topic of special interest 

 to the subject). 



9. Freedom and range of play of fancy (i.e. in popular speech — 

 ' imaginativeness '). 



10. Vividness and detcciled accuracy of representative imagination 

 (i.e. power of recalling past sense-impressions in corresponding imageiy). 



11. Constructive imagination (i.e. inventiveness, or the power of 

 bringing things together in imagination in relations in which they have 

 not previously been experienced). 



12. Power of ^logical inference.' 



13. Confidence in own observations and inferences and judgments 

 (i.e. the reverse of ' suggestibility '). 



14-. Exciiability in general, including susceptibility to emotional 

 disturbances of various kinds. 



15. Sympathy (the tendency to be moved by an emotion when the 

 expression of it in another person is witnessed, i.e. primitive sympathy). 



1(5. Generosity (the tendency to place the welfare of others, individuals 

 or the public, before one's own as a motive to action — the reverse of 

 selfishness). 



17. Conscientiousness (tendency for actions to be controlled by general 

 principles rather than by the immediate promptings of desire and emotion 

 — expressed, e.g. in truthfulness, honesty in schoolwork, punctuality, 

 and general trustworthiness). 



18. Sensitiveness to opinion of others, or to public opinion (this is not 

 to be confounded with conscientiousness or with suggestiljility). 



19. Sociability (the finding of pleasure and satisfaction in the society 

 of fellows). 



20. Independence and initiative (expressed, e.g. in tendency to assume 

 leadership in games, in class, etc.). 



21. Competitive or emulative spirit. 



22. Energy (i.e. capacity for doing work without exhaustion). 



XoTE. — The words in inverted commas may be used as catchwords 

 for the corresponding classes. 



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