The Mind of the Child: The development of the intellectD. Appleton, 1889 - Child development |
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accord acquired adults already animals answer aphasia appears asked atta auditory nerve babbling beginning biscuit bitte born blind born deaf brain called cerebral cortex cerebrum child colors concepts confounded connection consonants correctly deaf-mute distinctly distinguished Dysarthria Dysphasia echolalia experience expression feeling fingers formation frequently German language glass hand head hearing hundred ideas imitation impressions infant INTELLECT interrogative word Kaspar Hauser language later laughs learning to speak light lips mama mamma means memory memory-images ment messen microcephalous milk mother motor mouth move movements nurse objects observed Omama once onomatopoetic ORGANIC SENSATIONS pain papa peated perceived perception period person pleasure pointed pronounced question rare repeated says screaming sense sentences sight sleep sort speech spoken strong inflection syllables thing ticulate tion tone tongue touch understanding uttered verbs voice vowels weak inflection week words heard
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Page 286 - we say of the gentleman that he was blind, as we do of all people who have ripe cataracts, yet they are never so blind from that cause but that they can discern day from night, and, for the most part, in a strong light distinguish black, white, and scarlet; but they can • not perceive the shape of
Page 311 - until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the points of his fingers, as if he really touched the objects. When I gave the three bodies, the sphere, cube, and pyramid, into his hand, he was much surprised that he had not recognized them as such by sight, as he was well acquainted with
Page 312 - afraid of coming in contact with them, though they were in reality at a great distance from him. He saw everything much larger than he had supposed from the idea obtained by his sense of touch. Moving and especially living objects, such as men, horses,
Page 287 - colors asunder in a good light, yet when he saw them after he was couched, the faint ideas he had of them before were not sufficient for him to know them by afterward, and therefore he did not think them the same which he had
Page 192 - of view, in any case an extremely significant day in the life of the infant, is the one in which he first experiences the connection of a movement executed by himself with a sense-impression following upon it. The noise that comes from the tearing and crumpling of paper is as yet unknown to the child.
Page 310 - his eye, he saw as a plane triangle. This object was now turned a little, so as to present two of its sides to view, but rather more of one side than of the other; after considering and examining it for a long time, he said that this was a very extraordinary figure; it was neither a