rces. It will be well for the two who
look at the picture to be of very different types, let us say, one
imaginative, the other matter-of-fact.

Do all the papers of one series have some characteristics that enable
you to determine from which group they come? What conclusions and
inferences do you draw from the experiment?

5. Does the feeling of certainty make a thing true? See how many cases
you can find in a week, of persons feeling sure a statement is true,
when it is really false.

6. In the following way, try to find out something which a person is
trying to conceal. Prepare a list of words, inserting now and then words
which have some reference to the vital point. Read the words one by one
to the person and have him speak the first word suggested by those read.
Note the time taken for the responses. A longer reaction time usually
follows the incriminating words, and the subject is thrown into a
visible confusion.

7. Talk to successful physicians and find out what use they make of
suggestion and other psychological principles.

8. Spend several hours visiting different grades below the high school.
In how many ways could the teachers improve their work by following
psychological principles?

9. Could the qualities of a good teacher--native and acquired--be
measured by tests and experiments?

10. Visit factories where men do skillful work and try to learn by
observation what types of mind and body are required by the different
kinds of work.

11. Does the occupation which you have chosen for life demand any
specific abilities? If so, do you possess them in a high degree?

12. Could parents better train their children if they made use of
psychological principles?

13. In how many ways will the facts learned in this course be of
economic use to you in your life? In what ways will they make life more
pleasurable?

14. Make a complete outline of this chapter.

REFERENCES FOR CLASS READING

MUeNSTERBERG: _Psychology, General and Applied_, Chapter XXVII-XXXIII.

MUeNSTERBERG: _The Psychology of Industrial Efficiency_.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF REFERENCES FOR CLASS READING

COLVIN, S. S., and BAGLEY, W. C.: _Human Behavior_. The Macmillan
Company, 1913.

DAVENPORT, C. B.: _Heredity in Relation to Eugenics_. Henry Holt &
Company, 1911.

DEWEY, J.: _How We Think_. D. C. Heath & Company, 1910.

KELLICOTT, W. E.: _The Social Direction of Human Evolution_. D. Appleton
& Company, 1911.

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