1. Outline the chapter, in the form of a number of "laws", putting under each law the chief facts that belong there.
2. See if you can verify, by watching another person's eyes, the statements made on page 250 regarding eye movements.
3. Choose a spot where there is a good deal going on, stay there for five minutes and jot down the things that attract your attention. Classify the stimuli under the several "factors of advantage".
4. Mention some stimulus to which you have a habit of attention, and one to which you have a habit of inattention.
5. Close the eyes, and direct attention to the field of cutaneous and kinesthetic sensations. Do sensations emerge of which you are ordinarily only dimly conscious? Does shifting occur?
6. Of the several factors of advantage, which would be most effective in catching another person's attention, and which in holding his attention?
7. How does attention, in a blind person, probably differ from that of a seeing person?
8. Doing two things at once. Prepare several columns of one-place numbers, ten digits in a column. Try to add these columns, at the same time reciting a familiar poem, and notice how you manage it, and how accurate your work is.
9. Consider what would be the best way to secure sustained attention to some sort of work from which your mind is apt to wander.