6. Tests should sample operant thought patterns to get maximum generalizability to various action outcomes. As noted already, the movement toward denning behavioral objectives in occupational testing can lead to great specificity and huge inventories of small skills that have little general predictive power. One way to get around this problem is to focus on defining thought codes because, almost by definition, they have a wider range of applicability to a variety of action possibilities. That is, they represent a higher order of behavioral abstraction than any given act itself which has not the capacity to stand for other acts the way a word does. And in empirical fact this is the way it has worked out. Then Achievement score-an operant thought measure has many action correlates from goal setting and occupational styles to color and time-span preferences (McClelland, 1961) which individually have little power as "act ones" to predict each other. A more recent example is provided by an operant thought measure of power motivation which has very low positive correlations with four action characteristics: drinking, gambling, accumulating prestige supplies, and confessing to having many aggressive impulses that are not acted on (McClelland, Davis, Kalin, & Wanner, 1972).
6. Tests should sample operant thought patterns to get maximum generalizability to various action outcomes. As noted already, the movement toward denning behavioral objectives in occupational testing can lead to great specificity and huge inventories of small skills that have little general predictive power. One way to get around this problem is to focus on defining thought codes because, almost by definition, they have a wider range of applicability to a variety of action possibilities. That is, they represent a higher order of behavioral abstraction than any given act itself which has not the capacity to stand for other acts the way a word does. And in empirical fact this is the way it has worked out. Then Achievement score-an operant thought measure has many action correlates from goal setting and occupational styles to color and time-span preferences (McClelland, 1961) which individually have little power as "act ones" to predict each other. A more recent example is provided by an operant thought measure of power motivation which has very low positive correlations with four action characteristics: drinking, gambling, accumulating prestige supplies, and confessing to having many aggressive impulses that are not acted on (McClelland, Davis, Kalin, & Wanner, 1972).
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