It looks like Mike has identified the film about Psychometricians that I have described on this list before. My favorite scene is the stress test where the psychometrician shoots a gun near the job candidate's head. I hope some day to get this film to show in my Psych Testing class.
Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:36 AM, "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > I was channel surfing and came across a short film on the Turner > Classic Movie (TCM) channel. I came in on a scene where a > dog was being given a visual discrimination task which made me > wonder what the hell kind of film was this. I checked on the TCM > website and found that it was a 1941 Oscar winning short titled > "Of Pups and Puzzles". It actually is about the role of testing in > personnel selection but it has a number of scenes from quasi- > experimental > situations. The film is listed on the Internet Movie DataBase; see: > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033969/ > > Of particular note is a segment that has a chimpanzee using a stick > to get to a bunch of bananas that are hung high above him. It's > not clear who the chimp or person in the white lab coat is but it > does seem similar to some of Kohler work with chimps. A short > clip of this scene (it leaves out the lead-in) is available on > Google video: > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2984238121446044538# > > Anyone familiar with this film? By the way, if you go to the TCM > website, you can vote to have this film made available on video/dvd; > see: > > http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=401545 > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=743 > or send a blank email to > leave-743-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=746 or send a blank email to leave-746-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
