The Study of the Child; A Brief Treatise on the Psychology of the Child (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...are not very prominent or very clearly defined. When, however, the absent objects are held before the mind by means of their names only, the difficulty is multiplied many times over. Here words serve their highest function, and the success of the child in loading them up with meaning is profoundly tested. The transition from the use of words applied to individual objects to their use in designating classes of objects or of activities is often easily made by children, and yet some of them accomplish it very slowly and very laboriously. The use of particles and of inflections to distinguish number and gender puzzles them seriously at times. Amusing mistakes of both kinds are frequently related of the children in every household at family reunions. The blunders in the use of synonyms and homonyms are exceedingly common among children who hear language a little above their comprehension, or who are required to commit passages to memory without understanding their meaning. The following illustrate them: A little friend of mine was given the text, "The Son of man came into the world not to be ministered unto but to minister." She went off repeating it to herself, and returned in a few moments, surprising her monitor by saying, "The Son of man came not to be preachered unto but to preacher." "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways" was, after a similar effort, announced as follows, "A double-minded man is in the stable all the time." Another little sprite in the same family who had heard " The Goblins" recited attempted it herself, and where the boy quickly dons his " roundabout" she assuringly asserted that he put on his " whereabouts." A study of these movements in the language of the...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...are not very prominent or very clearly defined. When, however, the absent objects are held before the mind by means of their names only, the difficulty is multiplied many times over. Here words serve their highest function, and the success of the child in loading them up with meaning is profoundly tested. The transition from the use of words applied to individual objects to their use in designating classes of objects or of activities is often easily made by children, and yet some of them accomplish it very slowly and very laboriously. The use of particles and of inflections to distinguish number and gender puzzles them seriously at times. Amusing mistakes of both kinds are frequently related of the children in every household at family reunions. The blunders in the use of synonyms and homonyms are exceedingly common among children who hear language a little above their comprehension, or who are required to commit passages to memory without understanding their meaning. The following illustrate them: A little friend of mine was given the text, "The Son of man came into the world not to be ministered unto but to minister." She went off repeating it to herself, and returned in a few moments, surprising her monitor by saying, "The Son of man came not to be preachered unto but to preacher." "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways" was, after a similar effort, announced as follows, "A double-minded man is in the stable all the time." Another little sprite in the same family who had heard " The Goblins" recited attempted it herself, and where the boy quickly dons his " roundabout" she assuringly asserted that he put on his " whereabouts." A study of these movements in the language of the...

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United States

Release date

May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

60

ISBN-13

978-1-236-10466-3

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9781236104663

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1-236-10466-8



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