Backward and Feeble-minded Children: Clincial Studies in the Psychology of Defectives, with a Syllabus for the Clinical Examination and Testing of ChildrenWarwick and York, Incorporated, 1912 - 221 |
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Strona 6 - Feeblemindedness generally to include all degrees of mental defect due to arrested or imperfect mental development, as a result of which the person so affected is incapable of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows or of managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence.
Strona 1 - ... made the basis of classification by some clinicians, the number is greatly increased. It is estimated that in England and Wales one out of every 250 persons is feebleminded and that the proportion of insane is nearly as great. The percentage in America is in all probability as large. Dr. Fernald says: "There are at least 200,000 pronouncedly feeble-minded persons in the United States. Of these, 16,000 are inmates of almshouses, while only 18,000 are cared for in special institutions.
Strona 191 - Names the months in order, allowing one omission or inversion, in fifteen seconds. 40. Arranges, in order of weight, boxes of same size and appearance weighing 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 grams, in three minutes. Two out of three trials. Mentality of Ten Years 41. Names a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, two, five and ten-dollar bills, in forty seconds. 42. Copies design after ten seconds
Strona 201 - A child will often be shown to have the knowledge needed in a test in which he failed, and the test will then be called inadequate. But the test is not of knowledge merely, but of the ability to use knowledge in meeting a situation created by the standardized conditions of the test. Results can be considered...
Strona 200 - One hears very different judgments on the value of life. Some say it is good, others say it is bad. It would be more correct to say that it is mediocre ; because on the one hand it brings us less happiness than we want, while on the other hand the misfortunes it brings are less than others wish for us. It is the mediocrity of life that makes it endurable; or, still more, that keeps it from being positively unjust.
Strona 192 - Arranges, in order of weight, boxes of same size and appearance weighing 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 grams, in three minutes. Two out of three trials. Mentality of Ten Years. 41. • Names a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half, dollar, two, five, and ten dollar bills, in forty seconds. 42. Copies design after ten seconds' exposure. 43. Repeats six numerals. 44. Tells what one should do in various emergencies, and answers questions difficult of comprehension. 45. Uses three given words in two sentences. Mentality...
Strona 198 - Ask child to write the opposites of the following words: (1) good; (2) outside; (3) quick; (4) tall; (5) big; (6) loud; (7) white; (8) light; (9) happy; (10) false; (11) like; (12) rich; (13) sick; (14) glad; (15) thin; (16) empty; (17) war; (18) many; (19) above; (20) friend. Besides the obvious answers, the following...
Strona 198 - ... in having a dot in each section. Once knowing the scheme, the letters may be left out and a cipher dispatch written by using for each letter the part of the diagram in which the letter is placed in the key. For example " war " would be written OUTLINES OF PSYCHIATRY Having made it perfectly clear, remove the key and have child write on back of record sheet, " Caught a spy,
Strona 6 - Morons, those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
Strona 7 - Imbeciles are those whose development is higher than that of an idiot but does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years. 4. Morons are those whose development is higher than that of an imbecile but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.