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1 online resource (1 preliminary leaf, [v]-x, [iii]-xxiii, 292 pages) |
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The faculties of the infant before birth -- The first impressions of the new-born child -- Motor activity at the beginning of life -- Motor activity at six months -- Motor activity at fifteen months -- Instructive and emotional sensations -- General and special instincts -- Special instincts -- The sentiments -- Intellectual tendencies -- Veracity -- Imitation -- Credulity -- The will -- The faculties of intellectual acquisition and retention: Attention ; Memory -- The association of physical states: Association ; Imagination ; Special imagination -- On the elaboration of ideas: Judgment ; Abstraction ; Comparison ; Generalization ; Reasoning ; The errors and illusions of children ; Errors owing to moral causes -- On expression and language -- The aesthetic sense in little children" The musical sense ; The sense of material beauty ; The constructive instinct ; The dramatic instinct -- Personality-reflection-moral sense -- The moral sense |
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"Four years ago this book appeared to be a fortunate hit, offering as it did, though on the most simple scale, a study of infant psychology. The character of the work arose naturally from the line of study I had planned. I had, in fact, set myself to follow out in little children the gradual awakening of those faculties which constitute the psychic activity, so abundantly differentiated, so delicate and at the same time so powerful, of the adult human being. It was, no doubt, this intention--possibly a somewhat premature one--of systematizing a class of observations, of which hitherto only rough sketches had been attempted, which gained me the encouragement of philosophers and educationalists both in France and abroad. Thus then, while endeavoring to improve upon the modest beginning which had at first won me their sympathy, I could do no better than keep to my original method. My canvases were already sketched in and accepted: I have merely endeavored to draw them a little better and to fill them in more, to render facts and interpretations of facts clearer and more precise"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Medical Heritage Library |
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Child development.
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Child psychology.
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Psychology, Child
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Child Development
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Child Behavior
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Child development
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Child psychology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Christie, Alice M., translator
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