Motor Capacity With Special Reference to Vocational Guidance

I. AIM OF THE INVESTIGATIONS HERE DESCRIBED.IN industry as it exists to-day, there are 'occupations' in which the principal activity is the repeated performance of some simple movements or cycle of movements.The making of such movements often requires little strength, and also, since practice tends to produce automatism, little intelligence.On the other hand, the predominant activity in other occupations is m.enta1.It is therefore natural t o make a broad division among occupations, putting on the one side all those in which the chief emphasis is upon motor, and on the other all those in which the chief emphasis is upon mental capacity.(There will be an intermediate class of occupations, namely those which make considerable demands upon capacities of both sorts.)Now it might be argued, on the basis of common observation, that individuals are of predominantly motor or of predominantly mental 'type.'And the suggestion thus arises that such a 'typical' difference between persons, if it exists, might well play a somewhat fundamental part in vocational guidance.The question whether it exists or not is therefore important.Rut even if there is no such 'typical' difference 11-2 giving the tests to Groups B, D, and C respectively.