The Mind of the Child Part 4

_Direction of Look._--Forty-third week, objects thrown down are looked at (49).

_Interpretation of what is seen._--Visual impressions connected with food best interpreted (63).

HEARING.--Head turned at noise (87).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Joy at lighting of lamp (145).

WILL.

_Reflex Movements._--Inhibition of reflex (229).

_Instinctive Movements._--Forty-third week, carrying objects to mouth (252). Taking a hair from one hand into the other (253). Finger bitten (261). Bread crunched and swallowed (262). Turning over when laid on face (266). Fortieth and forty-first weeks, trying to sit without support (267). Forty-second week, sitting up without support in bath and carriage (267, 268). Forty-first week, first attempts at walking (275).

Forty-second week, moving feet forward and sidewise; inclination to walk. Forty-third week, foot lifted high; moving forward (276).

_Imitative Movements._--Beckoning imitated (285).

_Expressive Movements._--Laughing becomes more conscious and intelligent (299). Crying in sleep (308). Striking hands together in sleep (319).

Object pointed at is carried to mouth and chewed (322). Body straightened in anger (324). This not intentional (326).

INTELLECT.

Forty-third week, knowledge of weight of bodies (I, 50). A child missed his parents when they were absent, also a single nine-pin of a set (7, 8).

_Speech._--Child can not repeat a syllable heard (77). In monologue, syllables are more distinct, loud, and varied when child is left to himself than when other persons entertain him: _nda[)e]_, _b[=a]e-b[=a]e_, _ba ell_, _arro_. Frequent are _ma_, _pappa_, _tatta_, _appapa_, _babba_, _tata_, _pa_, _rrrr_, _rrra_.

Hints at imitation (108).

_Feeling of Self._--Forty-first week, striking his own body and foreign objects (191). Forty-first to forty-fourth week, image in mirror laughed at and grasped at (198).

ELEVENTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Direction of Look._--Forty-seventh week, child throws down objects and looks after them (49).

_Seeing Near and Distant Objects._--Forty-fourth week, new objects no longer carried to eyes, but gazed at and felt. Forty-seventh week, accommodation perfect (55).

_Interpretation of what is seen._--Trying to fixate objects (63).

HEARING.--Screaming is quieted by a "s.h.!.+" or by singing. Three hundred and nineteenth day, difference in sound of spoon on plate when plate was touched by hand (87).

TASTE.--Meat-broth with egg taken; scalded skimmed milk rejected; dry biscuit liked (126).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Forty-fourth week, astonishment at strange face (173).

WILL.

_Instinctive Movements._--Forty-fifth week, grasping at flame of lamp; forty-seventh, at objects behind a pane of gla.s.s; gain in moving muscles of arm; shreds of paper handled (252). Biting father's hand (261).

Smacking lips (262). Sitting becomes habit for life (268). Standing without support; stamping; but standing only for a moment (269). End of forty-seventh week, feet well placed, but lifted too high and put down too hard (276).

_Expressive Movements._--Grasping at his image with laugh; jubilant noise at being allowed to walk (299).

_Deliberate Movements._--Striking spoon against object and exchanging objects (326, 327). Child takes biscuit, carries it to mouth, bites off a bit, chews and swallows it; but can not drink from gla.s.s (329).

INTELLECT.

Syllables correctly repeated; intentional sound-imitation on the three hundred and twenty-ninth day. Forty-fifth week, response made for diversion: whispering begins (109). Three kinds of _r_-sounds: new syllables, _ta-h[(ee]_, _dann-tee_, _[(aa]-n[(ee]_, _nga_, _tai_, _ba_, _dall_, _at-tall_, _kamm_, _akkee_, _pra-jer_, _tra_, _[=a]-h[(ee]_.

Some earlier sounds frequent; consonants _b_, _p_, _t_, _d_, _m_, _n_, _r_; _l_, _g_, _k_: vowel _a_ most used, _u_ and _o_ rare, _i_ very rare (110). Accentuation not frequent (111). a.s.sociation of idea with utterance in one case (111, 122). Forty-fifth week, to word "papa,"

response _rrra_ (113).

_Feeling of Self._--Forty-fifth to fifty-fifth week, discovery of his power to cause changes (192).

TWELFTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Seeing Near and Distant Objects._--Fifty-first week, pleasure in seeing men sawing wood at distance of more than one hundred feet (55).

HEARING.--Screaming quieted by "s.h.!.+" (87). Three hundred and sixty-third day, hears noise in next room and looks in direction of sound (88).

TASTE.--Fastidious about food (126).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Grunting as indication of pleasure (144). Fifty-second week, astonishment at new sound (173).

WILL.

_Impulsive Movements._--Accompanying movement of hand in drinking (209).

_Instinctive Movements._--Child seized father's hand, carried it to mouth and bit it (261). Forty-eighth week, standing without support a moment; stamping; pus.h.i.+ng a chair (276). Forty-ninth week, child can not raise himself without help or stand more than an instant. Fiftieth week, can not place himself on his feet, or walk without help (277).

_Imitative Movements._--Trying to strike with spoon on tumbler; puffing repeated in sleep (287).

_Expressive Movements._--End of year, imitative laughing; crowing (299).

Laughing in sleep (300). Opening of mouth in kissing (305). Arms stretched out in desire (322).

_Deliberate Movements._--Biscuit put into mouth with few failures; drinking from gla.s.s, breathing into the water (329).

INTELLECT.

Ideas gained before language (78). Logical activity applied to perceptions of sound (I, 88). Abstraction, whiteness of milk (18).

_Speech._--Imitation more successful, but seldom correct. Articulate sounds made spontaneously: _haja_, _jajajajaja_, _aja_, _njaja_, _nan-hopp_, _ha-a_, _pa-a_, _d[=e]war_, _han-na_, _momma_, _allda_, _allda_, _apa-u-a_, _gaga_, _ka_, _ladn_; _atta_ is varied, no more _dada_; _w_ for the first time. Ability to discriminate between words (112). Fifty-second week, child of himself obeys command, "Give the hand!" Quieting effect of sounds "sh, ss, st, pst" (113).

_Feeling of Self._--Striking hard substances against teeth; gnas.h.i.+ng teeth (189). Tearing of paper continued (192).

THIRTEENTH MONTH.

SENSES.