The Mind of the Child: The senses and the willD. Appleton, 1890 - Child development |
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Page 2 - The living, playing, learning child, whose soul heredity has freighted so richly from a past we know not how remote, on whose right development all good causes in the world depend, embodies a truly elementary psychology. All the fundamental activities are found, and the play of each psychic process is so open, simple, interesting, that it is strange that psychology should be the last of the sciences to fall into line in the great Baconian change of base to which we owe nearly all the reforms, from...
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Page 221 - At 4 days old he pushed away his mother's breast when satisfied. The touch of a warm hand did not induce sucking movements. No practice seemed to be required for directing the hands to the mouth. Sneezing was always accompanied by violent movements of all the limbs, the thighs being flexed on the abdomen, the forearms bent, and the elbows thrust forward. The purpose of the flexion of the thighs on the belly was probably partly to relieve the tension of the suddenly contracted abdominal muscles, but...
Page xxi - Individual experience alone ; rather must each one, by means of his experience, fill out and animate anew his inherited endowments, the remains of the experiences and activities of his ancestors. It is hard to discern and to decipher the mysterious writing on the mind of the child. It is just that which constitutes a chief problem of this book.
Page 100 - I placed it outside the sty, a distance of ten feet from where the sow lay concealed inside the house. The pig soon recognized the low grunting of its mother, went along outside the sty, struggling to get under or over the lower bar. At the end of five minutes, it succeeded in forcing itself through, under the bar, at one of the few places where that was possible. No sooner in, than it went without a pause into the pig-house to its mother, and was at once like the others in its behaviour.
Page 65 - ... lacking when the latter has reached a comparatively advanced stage. For the experiences with persons born blind that have afterward learned to see, show that some of these patients supposed the objects seen to be touching their eyes, as objects felt touch the skin. Here Stuart Mill is quite correct in saying, " That the objects touched their eyes was a mere supposition which the patients made, because it was with their eyes that they perceived them." From their experiences of touch, perception...
Page 219 - The outcry that is heard from a child scarcely born has not the tone of lamentation, but of indignation and of aroused wrath ; not because anything gives him pain, but because something frets him ; presumably because he wants to move, and feels his inability to do it as a fetter that deprives him of his freedom.
Page 290 - ... was perfectly imitated once, when done by me before the child's face, and the child in fact smiled directly at this strange movement which seemed to please him.
Page 133 - Experiments on little Guinea-pigs, only eight to sixteen hours old, and separated from the mother after two hours, proved to me absolutely that concentrated watersolutions of tartaric acid, soda, glycerine, introduced into the mouth through glass tubes, are swallowed just as greedily or eagerly as cow's milk and water, with vigorous sucking. But then the empty tube, placed with the end upon the tongue, occasioned just such sucking. The experiments conducted in this manner can not, therefore, yield...