Studies of ChildhoodD. Appleton, 1896 - 527 páginas |
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activity analogy animal anthropocentric anthropomorphic appear articulate sounds asked assimilation Babba baby beginning brain bright called child child-thought child's mind child's play childhood colour connexion deaf-mutes doll doubt early example experience expression fact fancy feeling George Sand give half hasty generalisation heaven human idea illustrated images imagination imitation impulse infant infantile instinct interest invention kind language Laura Bridgman linguistic little American little boy little girl living look Mamma Max Müller meaning mental months old mother movements mystery nature nurse object observation onomatopoetic particular perhaps phonation play pretty Preyer Preyer's boy primitive probably puzzle quaint question R. L. Stevenson realising recognised reduplications Santa Claus scientific seems seen sense spontaneous stage story suggested supposed syllable talk tendency things Thor's chariot thought tion transformation vivid wind wont words young zoologist
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Página 53 - Every barn in the neighbourhood, every stone in the church, and every foot of the churchyard, had some association of its own, in my mind, connected with these books, and stood for some locality made famous in them.
Página 141 - One of the best illustrations of this is to be found in the invention of a word-sound for things to eat.
Página 98 - Because I planted my ten cents, and we will have lots of ten cents growing." (3 yrs.) B. climbed up into a large express wagon, and would not get out. I helped him out, and it was not a minute before he was back in the wagon. I said, "B., how are you going to get out of there now?" He replied, "I can stay here till it gets little, and then I can get out my own self.
Página 108 - He lets them down and drops them, and the women or doctors catch them, or He leaves them on the sidewalk, or brings them down a wooden ladder backwards and pulls it up again, or mamma or the doctor or the nurse go up and fetch them, sometimes in a balloon, or they fly down and lose off their wings in some place or other and forget it, and jump down to Jesus, who gives them around.
Página 29 - Yet it is no less true that imagination in an active constructive form takes part in the very making of what we call sense-experience ". " We read the visual symbol, say a splash of light or colour, now as a stone, now as a pool of water, just because imagination drawing from past experience supplies the interpretation, the group of qualities which compose a hard, solid mass or a soft yielding liquid.
Página 24 - ... temperaments, but also of different social conditions and nationalities. When we have such a collection of monographs we shall be in a much better position to fill out the hazy outline of our abstract conception of childhood with definite and characteristic lineaments. At the same time I gladly allow that other modes of observation are possible and in their way useful. This applies to older children who pass into the collective existence of the schoolclass. Here something like collective or statistical...
Página 8 - Kant gave so eloquent an expression, can only be understood by the most painstaking observation of the mental activities of the first years. There is, however, another, and in a sense a larger, source of psychological interest in studying the processes and development of the infant mind. It was pointed out above that to the evolutional biologist the child exhibits man in his kinship to the lower sentient world. This same evolutional point of view enables the psychologist to connect the unfolding...
Página 31 - I had the habit of attributing intelligence not only to all living creatures, the same amount and kind of intelligence that I had myself, but even to stones and manufactured articles. I used to feel how dull it must be for the pebbles in the causeway to be obliged to lie still and only see what was round about. When I walked out with a little basket for putting flowers in I used sometimes to pick up a pebble or two and carry them on to have a change ; then at the farthest point of the walk turn them...
Página 79 - He starts with the amiable presupposition that all things have been hand-produced, after the manner of household possessions. The world is a sort of big house where everything has been made by somebody, or at least fetched from somewhere.
Página 4 - ... At the cradle we are watching the beginnings of things, the first tentative thrustings forward Into life. Our modern science is before all things historical and genetic, going back to beginnings so as to understand the later and more complex phases of things as the outcome of these beginnings. The same kind of curiosity which prompts the geologist to get back to the first stages in the building up of the planet, or the biologist to search out the pristine forms of life, is beginning to urge the...