School Psychology Students,

I want to share with you an e-mail I got from my son this week.

This is what my finals are like, how about yours?

>Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions.
>Time Limit: 4 hours. Begin immediately.
>
>   1.History
>
>     Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present
>day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its social,
>political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, Asia,
>America, and Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific.
>
>   2.Medicine
>
>     You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
>bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has
>been inspected. You have 15 minutes.
>
>   3.Public Speaking
>
>     Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom.
>Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
>
>   4.Biology
>
>     Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if
>this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special
>attention to its probable effect on the English parliamentary system. Prove
>your thesis.
>
>   5.Music
>
>     Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and
>drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
>
>   6.Psychology
>
>     Based on your degree of knowledge of their works, evaluate the
>emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of
>each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Rameses II, Gregory of
>Nicea, Hammurabi. Support your evaluations with quotations from each man's
>work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.
>
>   7.Sociology
>
>     Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of
>the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
>
>   8.Management Science
>
>     Define management. Define science. How do they relate? Why? Create a
>generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions. Assuming an
>1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to activate your algorithm;
>design the communications interface and all necessary control programs.
>
>   9.Engineering
>
>     The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in a
>box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in
>Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the room.
>Take whatever action you feel is appropriate. Be prepared to justify your
>decision.
>
>  10.Economics
>
>     Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the
>possible effects of your plan in the following areas: Cubism, the Donatist
>controversy, the wave theory of light. Outline a Method for preventing
>these effects. Criticize this method from all possible points of view.
>Point out the deficiencies in your point of view, as demonstrated in your
>answer to the last question.
>
>  11.Political Science
>
>     There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III.
>Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.
>
>  12.Epistemology
>
>     Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your
>position.
>
>  13.Physics
>
>     Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of
>the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
>
>  14.Philosophy
>
>     Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance.
>Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
>
>  15.General Knowledge
>
>     Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
>
>  16.Extra Credit
>
>     Define the universe. Give three examples.

Best of luck with your finals.
Dr. BS



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Brenda Stevens, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Psychology
201 McGuffey, Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
(513) 529-4146
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