Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-23


and business men, found that
the most honest persons were not hon
est in everything, all of the time. So
this little problem may be interesting
to Dispatch readers. If you can an
swer the ten questions listed here,
and not look at the answers below
before you answer the questions, in
the allotted ten minutes, you will be
answering two psychological tests
thereby. If you answer or attempt
to answer the ten questions listed be-
low, within ten minutes, without look
ing at the answers you now know are
given at the end of this article, you
prove that you are at least partially
honest. Allow yourself ten points for
each problem correctly answered. If
you fail to answer any problem COR
rectly, or any portion thereof, count
that problem as unanswered, and re-
member that ten points are thereby
marked off your total.
Psychology, Webster says, is the sci
ence of the mind. He then adds that
it is "a systematic knowledge and in
vestigation of the genesis, powers
to the 10Th century, psychology was
generally considered a branch Of
metaphysics. In the earlier develop
ment it consisted chiefly of a doc
trine of mental faculties and powers,
Disseminated by introspection, hence
called faculty psychology. Taking an
other view of the use of the word
faculty, it is stated that the test be-
low is one for students, and not for
members of the faculty, although it
would indeed be interesting to know
just what percentage teachers in any
schools or colleges would make.
Aristotle's de Anima considers plant
life as well as animal and human life:
(1) the digestive process, CD loco~
motion, CD feeling, (4f representa-
tive imagination, 60 discursive rea>
son, (6) pure reason, according to w.
T. Harris. The rise of the associa-
tionismS, or associational psychology,
of Hartley, Hume, and the two Mills,
paved the way for the new psycholo-
gy, of the 10Th century. which has
diversified into MANY specific
bra nches.
l.
divided into two great divisions, an
alytic, or introspective, psychology, de-
voted to description of mental pro-
cesses as they are Immediately APP
pretended; and experimental psychol-
ogy, which includes CD psychophysics,
sometimes restricted to the relations
Of physical stimuli to sensations, and
sometimes extended to include (2)
psychophysiology /or physiological
psychology, which treats physiological
and psychiaI processes in their mu-
tual relation, and (S) psycopathology
which is study of aberrant mental
conditions, and includes psychiatry
and abnormal psychology. In respect
to the subject treated psychology is
divided into three subsciences: first
Individual psychology, which treats
the developed mind of the individua !;
second, comparative psychology, which
is the comparative study of different
classes of minds, and includes animal,
folk, race and social psychology; and,
third, genetic, OF evolutionary, psy-
chology, which is the study of the
minds development, and includes
child psychology and the genetic
studies of/the various departments Of
comparative psychology.
William James says psychology is
the science of mental life, both of its
phenomena and of their conditions.
The phenomena are such things as we
call feelings, desires, cognitions, rea-
sonings, decisions, and the like; and,
superficially considered, their varie~
L. = - 20
otic impression on the observer.
After one has read the above, they
will no doubt agree with James as
to the chaotic impression of variety
and complexity.
AS to the problems. The following
ten questions are the same ones given
to the Douglas High school students
recently in a ten minute psychologist
cal test. Be it known that 36 students
received a perfect grade of 100; So
made 90; n made 80; Al made TO; S5
made So; "a made so; 13 made 40; 4
made 80; made 20. This little test
is interesting. Be fair with yourself.
The school students walked into a
room, the papers were on their desks,
they wrote their names thereon, gave
themselves over to study and an
swering of the problems, and in ten
turned in their papers.
This question has fooled several
people 1t is not part of the test, but
is an example, How many of these
words have the same appearance when
spelled backwards. That is, if you
would put them before the mirror.
how many would read the same in
the mirror as they do here before your
eyes? The words are PEEP, MADAM,
OMIT, OHIO, TUT, NOON, TOOT. Puz-
zle that one out, without resort to
the mirror. Do not fool yourself. 1t
is not as easy as 1t looks. Answer
below.
Place your watch before you, or
look at the clock. ALI set? Allow
yourself just ten minutes. Not sec
ond more. Here is the test: