5 Minute History Lesson, Episode 8: U.S.-French Air Force Selection and Classification in WWII

Описание: 5 Minute History Lesson, Episode 8: Air Force Selection and Classification: a U.S.-French Collaboration.

In this episode, we explore the collaboration between U.S. psychologists and French researchers during WWII to create a selection battery to identify candidates most likely to succeed in flight training. Drawing on bilingual archival sources, this episode reviews the roots of testing batteries that are still used in the Armed Forces today.

Episode 8 is written and narrated by Cassidy A. Kuhar.

The Cummings Center continues its series of short films from the Archives of the History of American Psychology. The series tells stories of people, objects, and topics found in our archives, and includes collection notes.

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Collections Cited in Episode 8 from the Archives of the History of American Psychology:

Archival Collections
Philip H. DuBois Papers
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Special Interest Collections
U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) School of Aviation Medicine, AHAP Special Interest Collection
https://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/d...

Moving Images Collections
Cadet Classification (1943), U.S. Army Air Forces
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Morris S. Viteles Moving Image Collection
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Still Image Collections
David Campbell Photograph Collection of Psychologists
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Glen Finch Still Images: https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Paul R. Farnsworth Still Images
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Saul B. Sells Still Images
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Cummings Center Test Collection: U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF)
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...

Cummings Center Artifact Collection
https://collections.uakron.edu/digita...