Psychotechnics and the choice of profession

Abstract

Within the section “Pages from the History of Psychology”, we issue the work of famous Soviet psychophysiologist Kekcheev Krikor Khachaturovich (1893–1948) published one hundred years ago by the Central Labor Institute (Moscow, 1922). In this article, the author explores the problem of assessing the aptitude for a profession, gives an overview of the history of psychotechnics and its current – as of 1922 – state, and considers the importance of psychotechnics for pedagogy.