High School Department 172D EXAMINATION PSYCHOLOGY Friday, January 31, 1902-9.15 a. m. to 12.15 p. m., only Answer eight questions but no more. If more than eight are answered only the first eight answers will be considered. Each complete answer will receive 122 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. I State the difference between a) memory and imagination, b) a hallucination and an illusion, c) inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. 2 Show how knowledge, feeling and will are involved in any phase of conscious life that you may select, stating which of these elements predominates. 3 Define consciousness, state of what it is composed and discuss its changing character. 4 While you are moving about in a dark room, your head strikes violently against a projecting shelf which for the moment you have forgotten; show in detail how this sensation becomes a perception. 5 Mention and explain the essential conditions of a good psychologic experiment. 6 Describe the production of a sensation. Give an illustration to show that contrast is necessary in the production of a sensation. 7 A friend asks you if you have a picture of the Temple of Music; you reply that you have not but that you have a very good picture of McKinley. Describe the process by which you arrive at this thought and state the law of association involved. 8 Give a physiologic and a psychologic explanation of attention. 9 It is necessary for you to choose between a position in an office and a college education; you finally decide to go to college. Trace the psychologic processes involved in coming to this decision. 10 Explain and illustrate the interdependence of judgment and concept. II Explain a) how we are able by the sense of sight alone to affirm that an object is smooth or rough, b) why we are able to walk without being conscious of the act. 12 Explain, with illustrations, the meaning of the following: "The products of the constructive imagination have been the only stepping stones for material progress." High School Department 174TH EXAMINATION PSYCHOLOGY Friday, June 20, 1902-9.15 a. m. to 12.15 p. m., only Answer eight questions but no more. If more than eight are answered only the first eight answers will be considered. Each complete answer will receive 122 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. I State, with illustrations, the difference between a physiologic fact and a psychologic fact. Show in detail how a knowledge of physiology aids in the study of psychology. 2 It is said that by consciousness we mean the mind of the present moment, the mind now; that in life we pass through a succession of nows. Give illustrations to show this changing character of consciousness. 3 Describe an experiment in psychology, stating its purpose and result. 4 A man walking on a river bank is suddenly dazzled by a very bright light; he finally discovers that it comes from a search-light on a boat. Trace the psychologic processes involved. 5 Mention and define two kinds of attention. Explain, with illustration, the relation of interest to attention. 6 State what is meant by the association of ideas. Give an illustration of (a) the law of similarity, (b) the law of contiguity. Explain in each case the operation of the law. 7 Give a psychologic analysis of the process through which the mind passes in forming a mental picture of the battle of Bunker Hill. 8 Describe in detail the formation of a concept. Illustrate. 9 A person coming out of a large manufacturing establishment during business hours, thinks that the street is very quiet; another person coming out of a deserted building, thinks that the street is very noisy. Account psychologically for this difference of opinion. 10 State what is meant by the law of habit. Discuss the psychologic importance of habit and give two directions to be observed in forming a habit. 11 Define judgment and show how it differs from reasoning. Mention three essentials to an accurate judgment. 12 Explain psychologically (a) how we are able to estimate distance by means of sight, (b) why we reply more quickly to a question that we expect than to one that we do not expect. High School Department 174TH EXAMINATION ETHICS Tuesday, June 17, 1902-9.15 a. m. to 12.15 p. m., only Answer eight questions but no more. If more than eight are answered only the first eight answers will be considered. As this is an examination in ethics all questions must be answered from an ethic standpoint. Each complete answer will receive 121⁄2 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. I Describe the subject matter and the scope of ethics. Show why ethics may be considered a normative science. 2 Explain the meaning of the following, giving argument to justify or refute it: "Right and wrong are only incidents of territory and of custom." 3 State what is meant by the moral ideal. Show that the moral ideal requires both the highest individual development and the largest social service. 4 Explain why an act may be right for your neighbor and wrong for you. Give two instances illustrating this fact. 5 Distinguish between (a) self-love and selfishness, (b) duty and virtue, (c) knowledge and wisdom. 6 State the basis of the right to (a) life, (b) liberty, (c) property. Show the obligation involved in each of these rights. 7 State whether or not deception is justifiable when it is designed to benefit the person deceived. Give arguments and illustrations. 8 Show why it is the duty of every man to labor. Give, with illustrations, some of the moral evils of idleness. 9 Show (a) why an animal is a non-moral being, (b) why an act done through fear of punishment is a prudential rather than a moral act. 10 Give the ethic basis of each of the following: (a) "Recompense to no man evil for evil," (b) "Render therefore to all their dues," (c) "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." 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We shall esteem it a great favor * if you will give us your candid opinion in regard to the matter and also advise us concerning a desirable location. Very cordially yours Darwin & White * I heard a prominent graduate of one of our universities say that when he was a student many years ago, there was in 1⁄2 the student community* almost a contempt for wealth. The thoughts and ambitions of college men at that period were 5 in the line of higher things than wealth, and in their estimate of one another they regarded this as nothing. The 1⁄2 whole life of the country has greatly changed since then. * We have become a wealthy nation. We have passed from the simple life of a quiet town, as it were, to the luxury and 6 abundance of a great city. * The devotion of the people to money getting has become so great as even to be alarm1⁄2 ing, and the one desire which seems to unite all men * in this matter of money is the desire to make something out of nothing. 7 There is surely no worse sign of the times in our day than this. But I believe that much of the old spirit still 1⁄2remains at least, so far as our judgment of men goes. * If the evil tendencies that are manifesting themselves so strongly among our people are to be checked, and the glory 8 of the old ancestry is to be preserved, the result must be accomplished through the influence of educated men. 1⁄2 Those who go forth from the universities and colleges * must show by their living and by the energy which they display in the pursuit of the higher and nobler objects of 9 desire, what the true life for the nation is. * The young men of this generation are in greater danger 1⁄2 of being led away in the false path, * than were those who lived in former times. They need, therefore, the more constantly to open their minds to the higher influences of a 10 university life. * |