Collection of Pamphlets on Child Study, Psychology and Education

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1890
 

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Página 39 - LOMBARD, Some of the influences which affect the power of voluntary muscular contractions, Jour.
Página 2 - ... and in some sort is touching him always. It is not that he feels little, but that he feels habitually; a vulgar man having some heart at the bottom of him, if you can by talk or by sight fairly force the pathos of anything down to his heart, will be excited about it and demonstrative ; the sensation of pity being strange to him, and wonderful. But your gentleman has walked in pity all day long; the tears have never been out of his eyes; you thought the eyes were bright only ; but they were wet.
Página 4 - D is 15 millimeters in diameter; a piece of flannel is glued to its surface, so as to exclude the feeling of the metal when pressed against the skin, thus giving a pure pressure sensation. The whole instrument is 30 centimeters in length. In using this algometer it is held in the right hand at...
Página 3 - A high percentage of dolichocephaly seems to be a concomitant of mental dullness. 2. Children are more sensitive to locality and heat on the skin before puberty than after. 3. Boys are less sensitive to locality and more sensitive to heat than girls. 4. Children of the nonlaboring classes are more sensitive to locality and heat than children of the laboring classes.
Página 40 - Fatigue * is defined as the decrease in the capacity for work ; fatigue in this sense may or may not have definite relations to the peculiar sensation known as the
Página 4 - D is about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. A piece of flannel is glued to its surface, so as to exclude the feeling of the metal when pressed against the skin, thus giving a pure pressure sensation.
Página 11 - ... and adjusting his philosophical and theological conceptions. In the schools literary, historical, and scientific studies should be dealt with in a large and philosophic spirit. The child's desire to grasp the universe should be encouraged, not discouraged. Later he will settle to detailed work. The general absence of references to nature would seem to indicate that children are accepting scientific explanations as final. It would seem that the schools should lead them to feel and realize that...
Página 5 - The subject sometimes hesitates to say just when the pressure becomes in the least disagreeable, but this is part of the experiment. The purpose is to approximate as near as possible to the threshold of pain.

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