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GENERAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

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PSYCHOLOGY. General Psychology.—In this introductory course are considered the more general problems of the mental life of the normal individual, especially those that have a living interest for the student, and find illustration in his every day life. Among the large number of topics discussed the following are the chief: Relation of mental activity to bodily changes, sensation, habit, attention, memory, imagination, association of ideas, reasoning, instinct, emotion, will, localization of cerebral functions, time relations of mental phenomena. The course is amply illustrated by the use of apparatus, charts, prepared tissue, and photographs. Endeavor is made to give the class the more important results of recent researches. A considerable number of the best reference books have been purchased, and all the important psychological journals are taken. Fall term, Jull study. Assistant Professor KROHN. Laboratory Psychology.—This course is made up of lectures and laboratory work, with assigned reading. The class performs a series of about one hundred experiments to illustrate the time relations of mental processes, the influence of mind and body upon each other, and the psychic factors in sensation. The psychological laboratory of the University is already well equipped with apparatus, to which additions are constantly making. The current literature in this field is discussed in class and made the basis of reports and reviews on the part of the students. Winter and spring terms, half study. Assistant Professor KROHN. Required: Psychology 1. Comparative Psychology.—This course embraces the study of the more elementary mental activities, as manifested in the life of various animals. The object of this course is to trace the development of mind along the animal scale, ranging from the lower forms to the more complex mental phenomena in the conscious life of man. Romanes and Lloyd-Morgan. Winter term, half study. Assistant

Professor KROHN.

Educational Psychology.—In this course are discussed the growth and development of the mind, especially with reference to the first years of childhood. The attempt is made to devise methods by means of which the content of a child's mind may be determined at any period of its development. Thus the various methods of testing