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PSYCHOLOGY.

1. General Psychology.—A thorough understanding of the fundamental
processes of consciousness is now considered essential to an
intelligent comprehension of many of the problems of philosophy; of
the significance of language and literature; of the meaning and purport
of history; of the principles and methods of teaching as well as
the problems and aims of education. In this course the following
mental processes will be discussed and studied with the aid of Angell's
Psychology as a text supplemented by numerous references to the
works of recognized authorities both in America and Europe: attention,
discrimination and association; sensation; perception; imagination;
memory; consciousness of meaning and the formation of concepts;
judgment and the elements of reasoning; forms and functions
of reasoning; reflex action and instinct; nature of impulse and of
emotion; general theory of emotion; volition; relation of volition
to interest, effort and desire; character and the will; and the self.
Each process will be studied with special reference to the psychophysical
organism and the nervous system, in order to make intelligible
its neural basis, genesis and development, and function. The
course will be preceded with one or more lectures on neural action
and habit.

Text.—Angell's Psychology.

Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Martin. Law Building,
Room 1.

2. Experimental Psychology.—This course is designed to introduce
students to the subject. It will treat of sensation,—auditory,
visual, tactual, kinaesthetic, etc.; memory; attention; apperception;
binocular experience; etc.

Text-Book.—To be announced.

Daily, from 3:30 to 4:30. Mr. Balz. Rouss Physical Laboratory,
Room 11.

3. Physiological Psychology.—This course will be given on the
condition that there are five or more applicants for it. It will consist
of a short sketch of the structure and functions of the nervous
system and the interpretation of mental processes such as memory,
perception, attention, etc., in the light of such structure and functions.

Text-Book.—To be announced. Fees to be arranged.

Daily, hours to be arranged. Mr. Balz.

University Credit.—Any student who fulfills the conditions set forth
on page 16 and who completes successfully Courses 1, 2, and 3 will be
given credit for one session hour in Philosophy 3B.

Certificate Credit.—Professional Summer School Certificate—Psychology
1, 2, and 3.