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candidate has to move the paper beneath the pencil so as to draw the figure. 
(Apprentices : Siemens-Schiickert.) 
(iii) A pointer has to be drawn along slits of varying size and width, if possible without 
. touching the edges. 
(Apprentices : Technische Hochschule, Charlottenburg.) 
6. REACTIONS UNDER DISTRACTION. 
(i) Bright lights are flashed while the candidate is doing a divided attention test. 
| Mistakes due to distraction affect his total score. 
(Air Force: Germany.) 
(ii) Candidate manipulates the controls of a dummy cab in accordance with a code 
of signals. A light flashes, a loud noise is made, or the platform on which the 
subject is standing gives way beneath him. Signals are then given calling for 
; rapid movement of the controls, and the subject’s ‘nerve’ is judged by his 
response to these. 
(Tram drivers: Greater Berlin Tramway Co.) 
(iii) Candidate reacts with hand or foot movements to light or sound stimuli, while 
seated in front of a sheet on which appear cinematograph pictures without 
explanation or coherence. 
(Tram drivers: Société des Transports en commun de la Région Parisienne.) 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING VOCATIONAL TESTS COLLECTED DURING YEAR 
1930-1931. 
Letters were sent to those who had replied to the questionnaire circulated during 
1927-1928 asking for information concerning the development of new tests, methods 
of assessing temperament and character, and any additional work that had been 
done concerning occupational analysis. 
The replies have been few and the references are mainly to published work on 
these two subjects. The following is a brief summary. 
Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule, Berlin. 
Mainly tests for motor-car drivers. These, with other tests, are described in 
‘ Lerhbuch der Industriellen Psychotechnik,’ Berlin, 1930, Vol. 1, and further work is 
described in Vol. 2, which will come out in the autumn. In Vol. 1 questions of tempera- 
ment and character are discussed with special reference to work done for the German 
State Railways and the German Army. 
Stuttgart—W ork in this area is under the supervision of Dr. F, Giese, and the new 
developments have been in the direction of 
(a) New tests for saleswomen and needlewomen. 
(b) Temperament and character determination through observation of test work. 
Results are published in ‘ Beobachtung in der Arbeitsprobe —Giese and 
Cordemann. 
(c) Monographs. 
Russel, ‘ Berufspsychologische Untersuchungen in der Edelmetallindustrie ’ 
(Engravers, silversmiths, &c.) in the Press. Will appear in the Zeitschrift 
fiir angewandte Psychologie. 
Becker, ‘ Psychophysik der Schweissereitechnik’ (involving occupation 
analysis of welders) Dissertation Stuttgart 1931. Will be published this year. 
Barcelona Instituto de Orientacion Professional. 
- An account of work done is included in an article on ‘ L’Exploration de 
lAffectivité.’ 
Geneva. Université de Genéve. Institut J. J. Rousseau. 
M. Walther has done extended work on ‘ Cing Tests d’Habilité manuelle.’ Madame 
_ Héléne Antipoff has published work on ‘ Evolution des Fonctions psyco-motrices ” 
and tests of mechanical intelligence are in course of preparation. 
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