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by practice at manual operations, and an analysis into elementary processes 
of the mental activity essential to its acquisition. 
The ‘ mechanical’ factor and the ‘ routine manual’ factor appear to 
enter into many occupations. It is hoped, therefore, that these analytical 
results when published! may find wide application in the field of vocational 
psychology, as also the methods of analysis which have been adopted. 
TRAINING IN PSYCHOLOGY. 
Report of Committee appointed to inquire into (a) the occupations for which 
a training in psychology is necessary or desirable, (b) the place 
psychology should occupy in the curricula for University degrees in 
Arts, Science, Medicine, Education, Economics and other subjects 
(Prof. F. C. Bartiett, F.R.S., Chairman ; A. R. Knicut, Secretary ; 
Prof, F. AVELING, Dr. WM. Brown, Prof. J. DREVER, Prof. BEATRICE 
Epceitt, C. A. Macs, Prof. T..H. Pear, Dr. R. H. THOULEss, 
Prof. C. W. VALENTINE, A. W. WOLTERS). 
I. THE OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH A TRAINING IN PSYCHOLOGY IS 
NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE. 
1. A TRAINING in psychology is now recognised to be necessary _ for 
(i) teachers, who aim at forming mind and character, (ii) medical 
practitioners, who aim at curing mental as well as physical disorders, and 
(iii) industrialists, who aim at directing human energy in the most economical 
way; and educational, medical, and industrial psychology are three 
established branches of applied psychology. But a training in psychology 
is also helpful to any other person whose work lies in dealing effectively 
with human beings. It helps him not merely because it provides him 
with important and special knowledge of the human mind and of human 
behaviour, but also because it develops in him the habit of dealing with 
human relations and problems in an objective, scientific manner. 
2. (i) Medicine —Every physician should have received, in his medical 
course, a training in general psychology, and in the psychological 
treatment of mental disorder. 
(ii) Education—Intending teachers require a training in general 
psychology, and in the facts about mental growth and the formation 
of character, individual differences, abnormal and delinquent 
behaviour, the measurement of abilities, and the applications of 
psychology to methods of teaching. 
(iii) Theology—Clergymen require a training in general and abnormal 
psychology, in the psychological facts underlying religious and 
moral behaviour, and in the technique of effective pastoral work. 
Missionaries require, in addition, some knowledge of racial — 
psychology and of the mental life of primitive peoples. 
(iv) Law.—Both branches of the legal profession require, or at any 
tate benefit by, a training in general psychology, especially in its 
1 A detailed account of the analysis outlined in this report will be published in 
book form by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. 
