Mentally Defective Children Part 18

Key, penny, knife. IV. 2.

Weights. V. 1 and X. 1.

Drawing of square. V. 2.

Drawing of diamond. VI. 3.

Rectangular card and divided rectangle. V. 5 and Adult, 2.

Colours. VII. 5.

Cards with mixed sentences. XII. 5.

Square of paper. Adult, 1.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] The directions for this test, given in 1908, are to arrange the two triangles so that the _hypotenuses are as far distant as possible from one another_. In the 1911 article the directions are as above. It seems to the writer that both directions are ambiguous. In certain experiments in which she followed the 1908 directions she placed the triangles thus [Ill.u.s.tration: oblique triangle point up, oblique triangle point down], so that the children had to lift one across the other to effect a solution. A very small percentage of five-year-old children succeeded. If the triangles are placed thus [Ill.u.s.tration: oblique triangle point up, oblique triangle long side down] the task would probably be easier.

[B] See _Journal of Educational Psychology_, 1912: "A Tentative Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Measuring Scale of Intelligence," by Terman and Child. For an excellent brief review of the experimental work which has been done with the tests, see the same volume, pp. 101-110. The 1911 scale, with detailed instructions for the application of each test, appeared in the _Bulletin de la Societe Libre pour l'etude Psychologique de l'Enfant_, Nos. 70 and 71, April, 1911. This article has been translated by Clara Harrison Town (_Chicago Medical Press_). See also Meumann, _Vorlesungen Z.

Einfuhrung in die experimentelle Padagogik_, Leipzig, 1913.

DIAGRAMS

For the picture tests Binet used the following:

Fig. 1. Man and boy pulling a barrow with furniture.

Fig. 2. A poor old man and a young woman sitting on a seat outside on a wintry day.

Fig. 3. A prisoner standing on his bed to look out of the window of his cell.

The student should choose pictures which contain familiar figures and objects, and which "tell a story" capable of sympathetic interpretation. They should not be too childish.

The following pictures, all in the Tate Gallery, may be suggested:

The Doctor, by Luke Fildes.

The Blind Beggar, by J.L. Dyckmans.

The Wedding, by Stanhope A. Forbes.

A Hopeless Dawn, by Frank Bramley.

The Man with the Scythe, by H.H. La Thangue.