University of New Zealand.
B.A. Pass Examination, 1885.
Mental Science.
Paper
a.
Psychology and Ethics.
Examiner:
James Sully, M.A.
1. |
What do you understand by a Sense, and what physiological structures are necessary to it? How many Senses have we? |
2. |
Show how the Sense of Touch contributes to the Visual Perception of Form. |
3. |
State and illustrate the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contiguity, and show how they are related one to another. |
4. |
To what extent are the retention and the reproduction of knowledge dependent on our volitions? |
5. |
How would you define Constructive Imagination?
Compare the activity of Imagination in the invention of a fictitious story with its activity in the discovery of a Scientific Truth.
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6. |
Define and illustrate the mental processes known as Discrimination, Comparison, Abstraction, and Judgment, and point out their relations one to another. |
7. |
Is it possible to resolve the Moral Sentiment (
a) into a form of Fear, (
b) into a mode of Sympathy? |
8. |
How far can the Intuitionist allow that Happiness and Duty ultimately coincide? |
9. |
Distinguish for ethical purposes between (
a) Good and Right, (
b) Motive and Intention, and (
c) Duty and Virtue. |