3. Which of the instincts are most concerned in making people work?
4. Show how self-assertion finds gratification in the life-work of
an actor.
a physician.
a housekeeper.
a teacher.
a railroad engineer.
5. Arrange the following impulses and emotions in the order of the frequency of their occurrence in your ordinary day's work and play:
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Disgust
(d) Curiosity.
(e) Self-assertion.
(f) Submission.
(g) The tendency to protect or "mother" another.
6. How do "practical jokes" lend support to the view that laughter is primarily aroused by a sense of one's own superiority?
7. Get together a dozen jokes or funny stories, and see how many of them can be placed with the practical jokes in this respect.
8. Mention some laughter-stimuli that do not lend support to the theory mentioned in Exercise 6.
9. What instincts find outlet in (a) dress, (b) automobiling, (c) athletics, (d) social conversation?
REFERENCES
McDougall's Social Psychology gives, in Chapters III and IV, an inventory of the instinctive equipment of mankind, and in Chapter V attempts to analyze many complex human emotions and propensities into their native elements.
Thorndike, in his Educational Psychology, Briefer Course, 1914, Chapters, II-V, attempts a more precise analysis of stimulus and response.
Watson's Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist, 1919, attempts in Chapter VI to show that there are only three primary emotions, fear, rage and love; and in Chapter VII gives a critical review of the work on human instincts.