The Mind of the Child Part 7

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Fear of strangers ceases (150). Laugh at thunder and lightning (170).

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_Imitative Movements._--Combing and brus.h.i.+ng hair, was.h.i.+ng hands, etc.

(290).

_Expressive Movements._--Fastidious about kissing (306). Pride in baby-carriage (324).

_Deliberative Movements._--Spoon taken in left hand (329).

INTELLECT.

Father recognized after absence (8). Bringing cloth for wrap and begging for door to be opened (12). Grunting in order to be taken away (13).

Induction, watch and clock (18). Crying seen to be useless (20).

_Speech._--Imitation of whistle (91). Spontaneous sound imitations more frequent (131). Gazing after objects thrown and whispering, reading newspaper (132). Response to _pa_ correctly given (133). Objects correctly pointed out; memory of tricks (134).

_Feeling of Self._--Attempt to give his foot (190).

TWENTIETH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Discrimination of Colors._--First color-tests. Eighty-fifth week, no discrimination (7). Eighty-sixth and eighty-seventh weeks, no results (8).

_Movements of the Eyes._--Readiness of convergence, pupils very wide open (38).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Prolonged sleep habitual, etc. (163).

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_Reflex Movements._--Respirations twenty-two and more (217).

_Instinctive Movements._--Eighty-fifth week, thresholds stepped over quickly; inclines forward in running (280).

_Imitative Movements._--Use of comb and brush, putting on collar (290).

Sc.r.a.ping feet, putting pencil to mouth, marking on paper (291).

_Expressive Movements._--Proximity essential in kissing; bends head when "kiss" is said (306). Antipathy expressed by turning head at approach of women in black (315).

_Deliberate Movements._--Carries spoon with food to mouth cleverly (329).

INTELLECT.

As in nineteenth month, grunting (12,13).

_Speech._--_Rodi_, _otto_, _rojo_ (93). Understanding of the word "other" (128, 129). Five hundred and eighty-fourth day, important advance in repeating words said (135). Imagination; can not repeat three syllables; laughs when others laugh (136). Single words more promptly understood (137). One new concept, expressed by _d[=a]_ and _nd[=a]_, or _t[=a]_ and _nt[=a]_. Eighty-seventh week, _attah_ said on railway-train; _papa_ and _bat_ or _bit_ (for "bitte") rightly used; much outcry (138). Crowing tones not so high; loud readings continued (139).

TWENTY-FIRST MONTH.

SENSES.

HEARING.--Dancing not rhythmical (89, 90).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Fear of the sea (170).

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_Instinctive Movements._--Eighty-ninth week, running is awkward, but falling rare (280).

_Imitative Movements._--Imitation without understanding (290, 291).

_Expressive Movements._--Ninetieth week, pointing as expression of wish (321).

INTELLECT.

Recognition of father (8). a.s.sociation of biscuit with coat and wardrobe (11).

_Speech._--Imitations more frequent. Eighty-ninth week, babbling different, more _consonants_; _pto-pto_, _pt-pt_, and _verlapp_, also _dla-dla_; willfulness shown in articulate sounds and shaking head (139). Unlike syllables not repeated, _dang-gee_ and _dank-kee_; tendency to doubling syllables, _tete_, _bibi_; babbling yields great pleasure; _bibi_ for "bitte" rightly used. New word _mimi_, when hungry or thirsty (140). Understands use and signification of sound, _neinein_; and answers of his own accord _jaja_ to question in ninety-first week.

Strength of memory for sounds; points correctly to nose, mouth, etc.

(141). Astonis.h.i.+ng progress in understanding what is said. Few expressions of his own with recognizable meaning, _j[=a][)e]_ excepted.

_Att_, _att_, _att_, unintelligible. Tried to imitate sound of steam of locomotive (142).

_Feeling of Self._--Placing sh.e.l.ls and b.u.t.tons in rows (193). Puts lace about him; vanity; laughs and points at his own image in mirror (200).

The same on six hundred and twentieth day (201).

TWENTY-SECOND MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--New impressions enchain attention; the mysterious more attractive (64).

INTELLECT.

_Speech._--Progress in understanding; orders executed with surprising accuracy (142). Strength of word-memory; facility of articulation; spontaneous utterance of _pss_, _ps_, _ptsch_, _pth_; _pa-ptl-da-pt_; greeting with _h[=a][=a]-o_, _ada_ and _ana_. Singing, _rollo_, _mama_, _mama_, etc. More certainty in reproducing sounds: "pst, anna, otto, lina," etc. Three-syllabled words correctly repeated, _a-ma-ma_, _a-pa-pa_ (143). Words too hard are given back with _tap[)e]ta_, _p[)e]ta_, _pta_, _pto-pto_ or _rateratetat_. _Ja ja_ and _nein nein_, with _da_ and _bibi_ and _mimi_, used properly in request. Cry of pain a strong contrast with the crowing for joy (144).

TWENTY-THIRD MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Seeing Near and Distant Objects._--Ninety-sixth week, does not appreciate distance (56).

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