Review of Aptitude testing

Abstract

Reviews the book, Aptitude testing by Clark L. Hull (1928). The book is divided into two parts, but the reviewer is impressed with three distinct aspects: the historical phases of aptitude testing (including the "re-explosion" of pseudo methods of aptitude testing such as phrenology, physiognomy, etc.); the theoretical aspects of aptitude testing; and third the practical application of these theoretical aspects to the problem of actually discovering and measuring aptitudes. It is seldom that humor enters into a scientific work of this sort, but the author has unconsciously introduced a chuckle (for all who are not behaviorists) by attempting to simplify the definition of "subjective scales." Let me bait the reader's interest by giving him the page number--393. However let no one think that the book is in any way controversial-it is scientific, readable, and an able contribution to a field where good texts are few. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)