Apeil 14, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



383 



Legal psychology appears in two groups of 

 interest; first, the psychology of evidence or 

 testimony and pleading; and second, the psy- 

 chology of crime, delinquency, defective men- 

 tality, penology, dependency, correction, and 

 special types of mental deviation. 



Applied social psychology takes such forms 

 as the psychology of social amelioration, eu- 

 genics, race betterment, child welfare, commun- 

 itj' welfare, recreation and amusement, and vo- 

 cational and avocational guidance. 



The psychology of art appears in the psy- 

 chology of music, of graphic and plastic arts, 

 and of literature, dealing in each ease with the 

 psychology of art principles, the psychology 

 of the individual, and the j^sychology of train- 

 ing for the art. 



The psychology of religion is applied mainly 

 in the interpretation of religion and religious 

 life, and in the organization of character build- 

 ing and religious education. 



The above rubrics should not be regarded as 

 an adequate classification of the fields of pure 

 and applied psychology; they are listed merely 

 as a suggestion for the purpose of showing the 

 scope of the sciences and the tj'pes of outlets 

 for a career. 



Fitness poe a Career in Pstchologt 

 The requirements for a career in psychology 

 are in general the same as for other sciences; 

 and psychology presents a wide range of out- 

 lets through particular types of human interest. 

 In determining whether or not the student is 

 qualified for a career in science, he might make 

 use of a little device in applied psychology as 

 illustrated in the following rating scale: 



ANALYZED RATING OP FITNESS FOE A SCIENTIFIC 

 CAREER 



1. Reasoning power: capacity for solving prob- 

 lems, both deductive and inductive. 



2. Originality: creative imagination, brilliancy, 

 planful initiative and fertilitj- of rational ideas. 



3. Memory: extensive, logical, serviceable, and 

 ready command of facts. 



4. Alertness: quick, incisive, and responsive ob- 

 servation, thought and feeling. 



5. Accuracy: precise, keen, regular and reliable 

 observation, thought and feeling. 



6. Application: power of concentration, sus- 



tained attention, persistence, and well-regulated 

 effort. 



7. Cooperation: capacity for intellectual com- 

 panionship, team work and leadership. 



8. Moral attitude: intellectual honesty, whole- 

 some moral standards, ideals and influences. 



9. Health: nervous stability, physique, vitality, 

 and endurance. 



10. Zeal for investigation: deep interest in and 

 craving for original and creative work. 



Let the student rate himself and then ask three 

 or more persons whom he regards as most com- 

 petent and who know him well to rate him in- 

 dependently. Record the rating on a scale of 

 1-100 in which 1 represents the poorest exam- 

 ple of this trait, and 100 the best that the per- 

 son rating has ever observed in college studsnts. 

 College students, as a selected class, then be- 

 come the "measuring scale." 



These grades may be grouped as follows: 

 1 to 10 very poor ; 11 .to 30 poor ; 31 to 50 low 

 average; 51 to 70 high average; 71 to 90 ex- 

 cellent; and 91 to 100 superior. 



These ratings will differ, but the very dif- 

 ferences may throw significant light on the 

 situation. For example, on "originality" the 

 professor of literature may rate an individual 

 low on the basis of observed work in poetry; 

 whereas the chemist may rate him high on the 

 basis of observed work in science. These rep- 

 resent two types of originality; or one person 

 rating may have encountered the flashy fertil- 

 ity of ideas, whereas another may have ob- 

 served a planful and persistent initiative, 

 both of which represent originality, but 

 of different types. For this reason the 

 ratings on a given trait should not be aver- 

 aged but analyzed. The student should seek a 

 full and frank discussion of the grounds for 

 each rating as this will analyze the situation 

 further and throw important light on the na- 

 ture of his character and capacities. 



Nor should the ratings on the ten points ever 

 be averaged. A man may be vei-y high in one 

 capacity and low in another and such differ- 

 ences are significant; but an average of them 

 would be misleading. No person is uniformly 

 high or low in all. These traits are not of 

 equal value; some traits are more essential for 

 one type of career than for another. 



