Browsing by Author "Reyburn, H A"

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    A comparative study of honest and deceitful school children
    (1948) Slayen, P W; Reyburn, H A
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    A factorial study of arithmetical ability
    (1943) Olckers, Petrus Jacobus; Reyburn, H A
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    A factorial study of inferiority
    (1948) Yates-Benyon, John Wicht; Reyburn, H A
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    A psychological investigation of the incidence of absenteeism amongst Cape factory workers and the reasons therefor
    (1951) Naude, David B; Reyburn, H A; Taylor, J G
    With the dawn of 1952 great possibilities face South African industrialists. The natural impetus the war gave to industry has passed over to a more gradual expansion, and we are able to look around us and take stock of the situation. The wise industrialist, by every available means at his disposal, with the assistance of the Industrial Psychologist, Sociologist and Engineer, is consolidating his position.
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    An investigation into the nature of suggestibility and hypnosis
    (1948) Coulon, Cyrille Louis Joseph; Reyburn, H A
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    An investigation of early memories
    (1945) Fleminger, Marguerita Estelle; Reyburn, H A
    The object of this investigation was to study certain aspects of childhood recollections. A certain amount of work had been carried out previously on the subject of early memories. There had been investigations designed to determine the average age to which a person's earliest memory dates back, others had been concerned with the sense modalities, affective experiences, and emotions involved in these fragments remembered. In a few studies differences among the subjects themselves had been considered in relation to the memories presented by them. There had been investigations to discover whether differences in race, intelligence, age and sex among the subjects concerned play any part in determining the form and contents of the memories presented by them. In this particular investigation certain aspects of early memories have been studied separately, in relation to one another and in relation to personality differences among the subjects, and an attempt has been made to determine some of the factors which may account for the variance in the type of memories recalled. It should be mentioned that the memories which this investigation was designed to study were not the repressed experiences of early childhood which are recalled with exceeding difficulty, and which are significant for psycho-analytic therapy, but were those memories which might be recalled to consciousness with comparative ease, as will later be seen by the method involved in obtaining them.
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    The maladjusted worker : a survey by means of the Rorschach and other indices
    (1947) Davidson, Natalie Norah; Reyburn, H A
    In every work situation, assuming that the conditions of work are reasonably satisfactory, the workers may be divided into two classes. The first type of worker is the individual who is capable of making adjustive reactions to the work situation. The second type is the individual who is unable to adjust himself to the work situation. The investigation is an attempt to discover features of temperament, intelligence; and socio-economic background which are peculiar to the maladjusted worker, and which differentiate the maladjusted worker from the average worker. It is primarily a survey of maladjustment in workers, but, in order to create an adequate picture of the maladjusted worker it is necessary to draw a comparison between maladjustment and normality. For this reason the survey was extended to include a consideration of the average worker as well. The investigation has been designed so as to cover three gradations of maladjustment in workers. First, there is the maladjusted worker who is engaged in a wage-earning occupation in the open labour market. The types of maladjustment that are considered are marked, in that they represent distinct deviations from the accepted norms of the group to which the individual belongs, but they are not sufficiently serious to warrant a withdrawal from employment in the open •labour market. The second gradation of work maladjustment is to be found in the individual who is unable to compete for, or to retain, employment in the open labour market, and who, subsequently to the occurrence of a series of work failures, is relegated to sheltered employment. The third gradation of maladjustment includes those workers who are hospitalized as a result of the occurrence of a series of work failures, or the occurrence of a breakdown in the work situation.
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    A multiple factor analysis of the relationship between musicality, general intelligence, and literary ability
    (1939) Karlin, E; Reyburn, H A; Bell, William Henry
    The judgement 'that person is musical' is commonplace in our daily lives. The present writer has grown up in an intellectual environment coloured to a marked extent by interest in music and the related arts. To him it had always been a very natural phenomenon that a person should be regarded as musical or 'not-musical', and it seems justifiable to state that has attitude was but typical of his fellow-men. There appears to have prevailed for some time the idea that musicality represented some 'innate permeating spirit' which distinguished the possessor of the 'musical spark' from his brethren of more common clay. This implied that certain human beings had some general musical capacity or 'turn of mind' which was not possessed by others. Is there any justification for such an assumption? It was a question such as this which first stimulated the writer's interest towards a scientific investigation of the problem of musicality. This interest was refreshed almost continuously by a consideration of a number of further questions inevitably bound up with the consequences of the initial problem: Of the musical individuals themselves, was it true to say that their musicality was evidenced homogeneously either in degree or in quality throughout different musical operations? Was, for example, the music student who was keenest at discrimination of pitch also best at the memorizing of his music? Could anything definite be stipulated, either on a priori grounds or on the basis of experience, about the relationship existing between one's musicality and one's general intelligence? And what of the so-called allied arts; did literary ability, for instance, likewise involve a special quality, and was this ichor the same as was to explain musicality? It was as an attempt to provide a scientifically-investigated answer to such and similar questions that this analysis was originally undertaken. At the time of writing the field of the problem was entirely virgin soil; and though the writer would like to feel that this world does take an appreciable step towards clearing the obstructing growths of ignorance on the subject, yet he is obliged to point out the severely limited nature of the scope ot this thesis, owing partly to the brevity of time at his disposal and partly to the amount of wasted labour attendant upon all "pioneer" endeavour.
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    Rorschach tests applied to epileptic pupils
    (1950) Burema, Remko M; Reyburn, H A
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    The maladjusted worker: A survey by means of the Rorschach and other indices
    (1947) Davidson, Natalie Norah; Reyburn, H A