Mental Development in the Child and the Race
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ISBN13: 9780217512695
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Distance And Colour Perception By Infants. I. Experimental. The method called ' dynamogenic' has been explained in earlier pages. The application of it to particular questions now demands attention, as far as the present writer has attempted to apply it. It is evident, as was said before in speaking of the infant's responses in reaching for objects, that in any particular case the element of distance is a variable quantity to be considered with the influence of the particular stimulus in question. In investigating the infant's colour sensations, therefore, we have the formula D? -, in which c d denotes colour, d distance, and D strength of dynamogeny, as already explained. I undertook at the beginning of my child H.'s ninth month to experiment with her with a view to arriving at the exact state of her colour perception, employing this new method. The arrangements consisted in this instance in giving the infant a comfortable sitting posture, kept constant by a band passing around her chest and fastened securely to the back of her chair. Her arms were left bare and quite free in their movements. Pieces of paper of different colours were exposed before her, at varyingdistances, front, right, and left. This was regulated by a framework, consisting of a horizontal rod graded in inches, projecting from the back of the chair at a level with her shoulder and parallel with her arm when extended straight forward, and carrying on it another rod, also graded in inches, at right-angles to the first. This second rod was thus a horizontal line directly in front of the child, parallel with a line connecting her two shoulders, and so equally distant for both hands. This second rod was made to slide upon the first, so as to be adjusted at any desirable distance fro...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217512695 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217512690 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $22.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 290 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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