ABSTRACT

After the President's “unbuttoning” address, the first afternoon's session of about 4https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315010748/771f8d67-cedd-4a8a-8cda-d5c91538723a/content/in40_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> hours was spent in written work. The candidate, while fresh, was given a battery of three 20-minute intelligence tests: then allowed to de-tense while entering factual data into two questionnaires: one dealing with schooling, jobs, games, social activities, army activities etc: the other with health and home background. The psychiatrist prefaced the second questionnaire with a short informal chat explaining the psychological aspects of the Board. Last of all—when suitably de-tensed, relaxed, cajoled and warmed into some degree of spontaneity—he was given a battery of projection tests i.e. Interests Questionnaire, Self-description, Word Association Test and Thematic Apperception Test: its object was to provide clues to his emotional attitudes and temperamental make-up.