7. Discuss the effect of monotony on attention.
8. How do children and adults differ in their powers of attention?
HELPFUL REFERENCES
Pillsburg, _Attention_; Norsworthy and Whitley, _Psychology of
Childhood_; Strayer and Norsworthy, _How to Teach_; Betts, _How to Teach
Religion_; Weigle, _Talks to Sunday School Teachers_; Fitch, _The Art of
Securing Attention_; Thorndike, _Principles of Teaching_; Dewey,
_Interest and Effort in Education_; Brumbaugh, _The Making of a
Teacher_.
CHAPTER XII
WHAT MAKES FOR INTEREST
OUTLINE--CHAPTER XII
Individual differences and interest.--What makes for
interest.--Interest begets interest.--Preparation is a great
guarantee.--Knowledge of the lives of boys and girls a great
help.--The factors of interestingness: The Vital, The Unusual, The
Uncertain, The Concrete, The Similar, The Antagonistic, The
Animate.
After discussing the relation of interest to attention we still face the
question: What is it that makes an interesting object, or an idea
interesting? Why do we find some things naturally interesting while
others are dull and commonplace? Of course, everything is not equally
interesting to all people. Individual differences make clear the fact
that a certain stimulus will call for a response in one particular
person, quite unlike the response manifested in a person of different
temperament and training.
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