paniments of anger, are you
really angry?

4. Are the expressions of the same emotion the same for all people?

5. Try to analyze some of your emotional states: anger, or fear, or
grief. Can you detect the sensations that come from the bodily
reactions?

6. Try to induce an emotional state by producing its characteristic
reactions.

7. Try to change an emotional state to an opposite emotion; for example,
grief to joy.

8. Try to control and change emotional states in children.

9. Name some sensations that for you are always pleasant, others that
are always unpleasant--colors, sounds, tastes, odors, temperatures.

10. Confirm by observation the statement of the text as to the
importance of emotions in all the important actions of life.

11. To what extent do you have control of your emotional states? What
have you observed about differences in expression of deep emotions by
different people? In case of death in the family, some people wail and
moan and express their grief in the most extreme manner, while others do
not utter a sound and show great control. Why the difference?

12. Make an introspective study of your conscious states to note the
difference in clearness of the different processes that are going on in
consciousness. Do you find a constant shifting?

13. Perform experiments to show the effects of attention in forming
habits and acquiring knowledge.

(1) Perform tests in learning, using substitution tests as described in
Chapter X. Use several different keys. In some experiments have no
distractions, in others, have various distracting noises. What
differences do you find in the results?

(2) Try learning nonsense syllables, some lists with distractions,
others without distractions.

(3) Try getting the ideas from stories read to you, as in the logical
memory experiment described in Chapter X. Some stories should be read
without distractions, others with distractions.

14. Why are you unable to study well when under the influence of some
strong emotion?

15. Are you trained to the extent that you can concentrate on a task and
hold yourself to it for a long time?

16. Do you see that as far as will and attention and the emotions are
concerned, your life and character are in large measure in your own
hands?

17. Make a complete outline of the chapter.

REFERENCES FOR CLASS READING

COLVIN and BAGLEY: _Human Behavior_, Chapters IV, V, and VI.

MUeNSTERBERG: _Psychology, General and