3. What is the basis for the distinction made by Thorndike between
reflexes, instincts, and inborn capacities?

4. Read carefully Thorndike's _Inventory of Original Tendencies_. What
illustrations of the different original traits occur to you?

5. What do you understand by Park's statement that man is not born
human?

6. "Human nature is a superstructure." What value has this metaphor?
What are its limitations? Suggest a metaphor which more adequately
illustrates the relation of original nature to acquired nature.

7. In what sense can it be said that habit is a means of controlling
original nature?

8. What, according to Park, is the relation of character to instinct and
habit? Do you agree with him?

9. What do you understand by the statement that "original nature is
blind?"

10. What relation has an ideal to (a) instinct and (b) group life?

11. In what sense may we speak of the infant as the "natural man"?

12. To what extent are racial differences (a) those of original
nature, (b) those acquired from experience?

13. What evidence is there for the position that sex differences in
mental traits are acquired rather than inborn?

14. How do you distinguish between mentality and temperament?

15. How do you account for the great differences in achievement between
the sexes?

16. What evidence is there of temperamental differences between the
sexes? between races?

17. In the future will women equal men in achievement?

18. What, in your judgment, is the range of individual differences? Is
it less or greater than that of racial and sex differences?

19. What do you understand is the distinction between racial inheritance
as represented by the instincts, and innate individual differences? Do
you think that both should be regarded as part of original nature?

20. What is the effect of education and the division of labor (a) upon
instincts and (b) upon individual differences?

21. Are individual differences or likenesses more important for society?

22. What do you understand to be the significance of individual
differences (a) for social life; (b) for education; (c) for
industry?

23. What do you understand by the remaking of human nature? What is the
importance of this principle for politics, industry, and social
progress?

24. Explain the proverbs: "Habit is ten times nature," "Habit is second
nature."

25. What is Cooley's definition of human nature? Do you agree or
disagree with him? Ela