overall: .1 cm x 21.3 cm x 27.6 cm; 1/32 in x 8 3/8 in x 10 7/8 in
Object Name:
Psychological Test Record Blank
Description:
Pennsylvania-born Robert M. Yerkes (1876-1956) attended Ursinus College and then obtained a second A.B. and a PhD. from Harvard University. He spent the years from 1902 through 1917 at Harvard, and from 1913 to 1917 also was affiliated with the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. He would spent most of the rest of his career advising the U.S. government and serving on the faculty of Yale University. Cecilio Salvador Rossy (1892-1918) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He did undergraduate work at Harvard University and interned at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, testing some 400 cases between 1914 and 1915 with his fellow intern and future spouse Marjorie H. Sawyer.
Yerkes & Rossy devised a point scale for adolescents and adults, following the plan of a preadolescent point scale. This is the record blank for that test, as distributed by the hospital. Tests included response to pictures, comparison of weights, memory for digits, suggestibility, memory for unrelated sentences, comparison of terms, comprehension of questions, definitions of abstract and concrete terms, appreciation of absurdities, analogies, association of opposites, relational, boxes, ingenuity, comparison of capital letters, code learning, ball and field, geometrical construction, reproduction of diamonds, and memory for designs.
For a related object, see MA.316371.112.
References:
Hilgard, E.R. “Robert Mearns Yerkes (1876-1956), <I>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</I>, 1965, pp. 383-425.
Rossy, C. S., “Feeblemindedness and Industrial Relations,” <I>National Committee for Mental Hygiene Reprint #19</I>, 1918.
Rossy, C. S. and Yerkes, R.M., “A Point Scale in the Measurement of Intelligence in Adolescent and Adult Individuals,” <I>Boston Medical and Surgical Journal</I>, 1917, 176, pp. 564-573.
C. S. Rossy & M. H. Sawyer, "Comparison of Mental Gradings by the Yerkes-Bridges Point Scale and the Binet-Simon Scale," <I>The Pedagogical Seminary</I>,1916, 23:4, 452-467.
