The Study of the Child: A Brief Treatise on the Psychology of the Child, with Suggestions for Teachers, Students, and ParentsD. Appleton, 1898 - 215 páginas |
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ability action æsthetic affection afferent nerves already apperception attained become body brain called cause cerning CHAPTER chil child's plays childhood color consciousness defective definite dependent discover diseases dren easily effort elements emotions EMPORIA ence eral exercise experience feeling fingers function give habits hear heredity human voice hyperopic ical idea ideal imagination imitation impulse individual inquiries instincts intellectual intelligent interest judgment kind knowledge knowledge-getting language learned less major premise meaning memory ment mental activities mind moral mother motive motor control muscles muscular movement nature nerve nervous notion object organ origin parents perception physical play playmates pleasure possible reason recognized reflex action relation result sensation of sight sensations sense serve sight skill sound suggested syllogism symbol taste teacher temperature things tion tivation touch violin words
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Página 185 - a hunter and fisher, a hard drinker, jolly and companionable, averse to steady toil, working hard by spurts and idling by turns, becoming blind in his old age, and entailing his blindness upon his children and grandchildren,
Página 185 - in my previous convictions as to the baneful effects produced by alcohol, not only in the individuals who use this detestable drink to excess, but also in their descendants. On their depraved physiognomy is impressed the threefold stamp of physical, intellectual, and moral degeneracy.
Página 157 - the bird starts to build its nest; the human being to mate, to search for a home, and to take up the round of domestic duties toward which his ancestors were likewise impelled. Blind impulses due to nervous tension have from the beginning of history driven men to do certain things.
Página 93 - No wonder he rolls and runs and jumps and tumbles and pulls and pushes and twists from the moment he opens his eyes in the morning until he is put to bed at night. He
Página i - the earlier processes of plowing, harrowing, sowing the grain, its growth dependent on rain and sunshine. Each one of these links in the chain has side relations to other chains of causality; for example, the yeast put into the bread connects it with hops or some other ferment or effervescent, the lard connects bread with the series of ideas involved in
Página xii - The principal aim of this book has been to bring the subject within the comprehension of the average teacher and parent. Technical terms and scientific formulae have been avoided as much as possible. The desire to announce new principles has been wholly subservient to that of wishing to serve my fellow-workers by assisting them to a closer relationship with the
Página ix - the feeling of responsibility. The act as performed by another is none of his. The act as imitated by himself is his own and he is responsible for it. Imitation is therefore an act of the will, just as symbolism
Página ix - Then the imitator finds no longer his guide and rule in an external model. He finds the rule for his action in his own mind and becomes original. The child imitates
Página 183 - No one nowadays who is engaged in the treatment of mental disease doubts that he has to do with the disordered function of a bodily organ—of the brain.