Describe the impact of World War I on the testing movement.
On a day in the year of 1917, when US entered into First World War, there was a meeting taking place at Harvard University of Society of Psychologists who were experimentalists of Titchener.
The APA’s president, Yerkes, adopted the group to take into account how effort of the war. Titchener denied taking part, on the basis that he was a citizen from Britain. He picked up and removed his chair, from the room such that he can avoid the discussion of war.
The more probable reason for absence of enthusiasm from Titchener can be that he did not like the idea of application of psychology to pragmatic problems, dreading that psychology might be trading “a technology science”.
As the army of America moved ahead, leaders of military confronted the assessing problem the match of intelligence of many recruits, to group them and assigning them with appropriate tasks.
The Binet-Stanford was only test for intelligence and needed a person being trained highly to deliver it appropriately. The test was not used because of the huge number of people to be tested at the same time and that too in such a short period.