FACULTY OF EDUCATION. PSYCHOLOGY AND GENERAL METHOD. General Course. (Write on question 7 and any other four questions). 1. (a) Point out the character of the end-organs from which we get sensations of taste, weight, giddiness, and temperature. (b) State briefly, on the physiological side, the causes of pleasure and pain. 2. "Interest is the most important factor in the learning process." (a) What is interest, and upon what does it depend? (b) Indicate different types of interest and point out which is the most desirable in the work of the school. (c) Discuss the doctrine that the most profitable school work is uninteresting. 3. Name two essential conditions of habit-formation. Discuss the comparative influences of home and school in the forming of habits. Point out the relation of habitformation to age, size of classes, and economy of effort. 4. Distinguish between percept, image, and idea. Estimate the importance of the productive imagination. What are the conditions upon which it depends and how may it be trained? 5. (a) The fluent reader actually sees only a few words in the sentences that he reads. Explain how it is that he is able to follow the sense. (b) Some pupils, in reading, either omit words entirely or substitute wrong words. Some pupils are ap parently unable to spell even simple words. (a) "All consciousness is impulsive "; Point out 7. Discuss (a) the statement of aim and (b) the summary, in relation to the effectiveness of a lesson. FACULTY OF EDUCATION. PSYCHOLOGY AND GENERAL METHOD. Advanced Course. (Write on question 7 and any other four questions). (a) Perception of place or locality upon the skin? (b) Perception of the solidity, distance, and position of objects in space? 2. Describe the kind of attention that you would aim to secure in your schoolroom, and the chief means upon which you would rely in order to secure it. How would you aim to overcome inattention? 3. Explain what is meant by the following statements : (a) Perception is partly symbolic or representative; (b) Perception tends to become automatic; (c) We perceive only what we have learned to perceive. 4. How does emotion differ from feeling? State Titchener's theory of emotion. In what respects is it possible to train the emotions? 5. Discuss the statement that "the school is a conceptforming institution." 6. Analyze the process of inductive reasoning so as to show what psychological factors are involved in it. 7. Explain the nature of Apperception and show its place and importance in the teaching process. |