Faculty of Public Health : Mid-year examination
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Faculty of Public Health : Mid-year examination
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Creator
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Faculty of Public Health
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Date
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1924-01
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Description
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The mid-year examination assigned by Prof. A. Stevenson to students in the psychology course for the Certificate of Public Health Nursing.
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University of Western Ontario
Faculty of Public Health
Mid-year Examination
PSYCHOLOGY - C.P.H.N.
January 1924 - A. Stevenson - Lecturer and Examiner.
Answer any four.
1. (a) What sense organs function in giving us knowledge of the following properties or qualities of our own bodies or of external objects: equilibrium, weight, hardness, flavor, smoothness?
(b) briefly explain the following terms as applied to sensations: kinaesthetic, organic, static, cutaneous, gustatory
2. Explain the nature and the significance of the class demonstration and experience with (a) the Peruvian bark (b) the egg-shell, and (c) the non-sense syllables.
3. (a) Name the two factors in an act of perception.
(b) Show that if a percept is inaccurate the cause may lie in either of these two factors.
(c) Distinguish illusion, hallucination, delusion.
4. (a) Explain at some length the statement that the new born infant is a bundle of capacities, tendencies, and active and latent abilities, illustrating your answer throughout by definite reference to particular instances of these.
(b) Show the changes that take place in a general way in regard these as the child grows older, and state the causes to which these changes are due.
5. (a) What exactly do we mean by memory? By a good memory?
(b) What property or quality of nerve tissue makes recall possible?
(c) Name the factors that enter into an act of memory?
(d) State the conditions, physical and mental, that contribute to facility and accuracy of recall.
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Language
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English
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From the School of Nursing fonds. AFC 2-2-1
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Subject
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Nursing--Ability testing, Public health nursing--Study and teaching
