Backward and Feeble-minded Children: Clincial Studies in the Psychology of Defectives, with a Syllabus for the Clinical Examination and Testing of Children

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Warwick 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 199 - 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 190 - ... Uses three given words in two sentences. Mentality of Eleven Years. 46. Detects nonsense in three out of five statements, in about two minutes. 47. Uses three given words in one sentence. 48. Gives at least sixty words in three minutes. 49. Names three words that rhyme with obey, in one minute. 50. Rearranges shuffled words of 8-word sentences, two out of three, with one minute for each. Mentality of Twelve Years. 51. Repeats seven numerals in order, when heard once. 52. Defines charity, justice,...
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 189 - 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 7 - Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
Strona 198 - 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 197 - Besides the obvious answers, the following are accepted as right or half right: 2, in or indoors (half) ; 3, lazy or slowly (half) ; 4, little or low (half) ; 5, short (half) ; 6, soft or low (right), whisper (half) ; 9, sorry or sorrow (half); 10, right or truth (half); 11, dislike, unlike or hate (right); 13, healthy (right) ; 14, mad (right) ; 15, broad (half) ; 16, filled (right) ; 18, none (right); 19, under (right).
Strona 193 - Why does one excuse a wrong act committed in anger more easily than a wrong act committed without anger?
Strona 188 - Mentality of Three Years 7. Touches nose, eyes, mouth, and pictures of these as directed. 8. Repeats easy sentences of six syllables, with no error. 9. Repeats two numerals. 10. Enumerates familiar objects in pictures. 11. Gives family name. Mentality of Four Years 12. Knows own sex. 13. Recognizes key, knife, penny. 14. Repeats three numerals in order, when heard once. 15. Tells which is longer of lines differing by a centimeter. Mentality of Five Years 16. Discriminates weights of 3 and 12 grams,...

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