Test Revision Extra Credit

This assignment is due by 1/13/2011.  The purpose of this extra credit is to give you some feedback and suggestions to help you develop your studying, reading, and writing skills.  You will also practice some techniques for systematically approaching your tests, both during and before the test.  If I find that you have conscientiously completed the assignment, I will add 1pt (10%) to your test #2 grade.

First, take a few minutes and go to one or more of the linked pages and do some practice exercises.  At the beginning of your revised answer, note which, if any, exercises you completed.

Next, Wallis gave a short lecture on systematically answering test questions and studying.  For each question you wish to submit as part of this exercise you'll need two things;  (1) A copy of the lecture outline (Just the first few slides of a lecture) for the relevant lecture,  (2) A copy of the test questions (below).  For each question you revise: (1) Go through the lecture outline and try to do the things described in (B) and (C) in the study section of Wallis' Lecture on test taking (slides one and two).  (3) Print out or copy each question and write your answer (and mark-up the question) as outlined in the reading test questions section of Wallis' lecture on test taking (slides three and four).  (4) Create a bullet point outline of your old answer and a bullet point outline of your new answer.  (5) Write your answer using the new outline.  (6) Turn in all your work to Wallis by 1/13/2011.  You can use your blue book to write your answers, but turn in all other material stapled inside the blue book.

Test Question

In class we said that psychological egoists are often moral nihilists. We looked at several arguments which took psychological egoism as their premise (evidence) and inferred moral nihilism. Define psychological egoism and moral nihilism, then present one of the arguments from psychological egoism to moral nihilism. Egoism Lecture