3. What are the first impulses? What are the first things that attract attention? Color. Light. Movement. Sound. Bodily signs of attention. Mental and bodily effects of attention. Periods of activity. Length. Intensity. Effort. Describe the mind and body movement in the following actions: Start at a loud noise, first effort to follow a moving light, to grasp a ball, to sit erect. What is the spur to repetition? What is the mental and bodily effect of each successful attempt? By what process does a child learn to direct his movements? Can an infant get the class of notions that we express by such words as far, near, high, low, up, down, fast, slow, here, there, large, small, hard, soft, without bodily motion? What part does similarity play, and what contrast? Describe one of the earliest acts in which you think you can trace the following as parts of one process: Feeling of pleasure or pain, controlled motion, distinct images. References on Instinct and Impulse: Mental Develofmnent in Early Infancy, Dewey; see Transactions Illinois Society for Child Study, Vol. IV, No. 3; Infant Mind, pp. 135-140, Preyer; Briefer Course, pp. 392-406, James; Outlines of Psychology, p. 278, Wundt.