you understand by public opinion? How does it originate?

8. Is legislation in the United States always a result of public
opinion?

9. Does the trend of public opinion determine corporate action?

10. Is public opinion the same as the sum of the opinion of the members
of the group?

11. What is the relation of social forces to interaction?

12. Is it possible to study trends, tendencies, and public opinion as
integrations of interests, sentiments, and attitudes?

13. Are desires the fundamental "social elements"?

14. What do you understand Small to mean when he says, "The last
elements to which we can reduce the actions of human beings are units
which we may conveniently name 'interests'"?

15. What is Small's classification of interests? Do you regard it as
satisfactory?

16. What do you think is the difference between an impulse and an
interest?

17. Do people behave according to their interests or their impulses?

18. Make a chart showing the difference in interests of six persons with
whom you are acquainted.

19. Make a chart indicating the variations in interests of six selected
groups.

20. What difference is there, in your opinion, between interests and
social pressures?

21. Do you consider the following statement of Bentley's correct: "No
slaves, not the worst abused of all, but help to form the government"?

22. Does the group exert social pressure upon its members? Give
illustrations.

23. What do you understand to be the differences between an idea and an
idea-force?

24. Give illustrations of idea-forces.

25. Are there any ideas that are not idea-forces?

26. What do you understand by a sentiment?

27. What is the difference between an interest and a sentiment? Give an
illustration of each.

28. Are sentiments or interests more powerful in influencing the
behavior of a person or of a group?

29. What do you understand by a social attitude?

30. What is a mental conflict?

31. To what extent does unconsciousness rather than consciousness
determine the behavior of a person? Give an illustration where the
behavior of a person was inconsistent with his rational determination.

32. What do you understand by mental complexes?

33. What is the relation of memory to mental complexes?

34. What do you understand by personality? What is its relation to
mental complexes?

35. What is meant by common sense?

36. How does Holt define the Freudian wish?

37. What distinction