Journal of Genetic Psychology (Volume 2) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... IV.--CHILD STUDY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. Die Periodicitat in der Entwickelung des Kindesnatur. G. Siegert. Our chief need is to know the laws of development of child nature. Typical individual children are described as follows: 1. A very gifted boy who has long led his class. Now for some time he is inert, lazy, blundering, till some illness is feared. Soon he revives and is as before. These variations recur several times, gradually diminishing in extent and frequency. 2. A girl of nine who had been a pattern of order, diligence and propriety. Now for some weeks she is obstinate, untruthful and untidy. The parents cannot explain the change. Gradually these bad traits vanish. 3. A very strong, healthy boy of 12, a picture of health and vigor, the leader in all athletic sports and games. He becomes lazy and moping and moody. The doctor can find nothing, but his appetite is reduced. and his mood is dumpy. In a week all is past and he is his old vigorous self. 4. A girl usually muddle-headed has a period of lucidity and good lessons, but what is gained in one direction seems lost in others. 5. Children are at times abler in imitation and at other times in independent thinking. Memory work and creation alternate. 6. A boy with great mental gifts neglects his usual physical exercise in cramming for examination, falls into a state of mind and a mood that threaten mental health. He is righted by a restoration of the old regime. 7. An able boy had a sudden passion for athletics that disturbed the equilibrium between mind and body. He grew rapidly tall and at the same time stupid, and symptoms of disease appeared, but all came right later. 8. After diphtheria much learned before is entirely lost, and moods and ability are subject to great and strange fluctuation. Regularity is ...