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Problem Questions 



1. Why are instincts important in the lives of animals? Give some 

 examples of household pets that show how instincts may be modified. 



2. What are habits? How may they be formed? 



3. Make a list of daily habits that are instinctive in origin, 



4. Make a list of habits of mind that you would like to acquire. How 

 would you go to work to do this? 



5. Show what habits would result in the protection of your eyes. 



6. Sum up the reasons why alcohol harms a person through its effects on 

 the nervous system. 



Problem and Project References 



Hunter, Laboratory Problems in Civic Biology. American Book Company. 



Fabre, The Wonders of Instinct. The Century Company. 



The Gulick Hygiene Series, Control of Body and Mind. Ginn and Company. 



Home, Psychological Principles of Education. The Macmillan Company. 



James, Talks to Teachers. Henry Holt and Company. 



Hough and Sedgwick, The Human Mechanism. Ginn and Company. 



Welch, Physiological Aspects of the Liquor Problem. The Macmillan Company 



Martin, The Human Body, Advanced Course. Henry Holt and Compa,ny. 



Williams, Personal Hygiene Applied. W. B. Saunders Company. 



