Volume 1

The mind of the child : observations concerning the mental development of the human being in the first years of life / by W. Preyer ; translated, from the original German, by H.W. Brown.

Date:
1890
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Credit: The mind of the child : observations concerning the mental development of the human being in the first years of life / by W. Preyer ; translated, from the original German, by H.W. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    I laid each color separately before the child and asked, “What is that?” lie answered, rroot [Eng. pronunciation wrote] (for rath, red), delp, depp, gelp (for gelb, yellow), rihn, ihn [Eng. pr. reen, eeri] (for gricn, green), balau (for b/au, blue), and lilla (for lila, violet). In the one hundred twelfth week the answers in four trials were: Right. Wrong. Bed 10 2 Yellow 9 0 Green 9 1 Blue 5 7 Violet 11 1 Total 44 11 Here, too, yellow is foremost; it was named cor- rectly nine times, not once wrongly named. Blue comes last. It was confounded especially with green and vio- let. If the child’s attention failed, I broke off. Afterward the tests were continued in both ways combined; but these proved to be great consumers of time. It often happens that the child takes no interest in the colors. Sometimes, from roguishness, he will not name the color he knows, and will not point out or give me the one I ask for. At other times he himself brings the box that holds the color-ovals, and says wawa = “Farbe” (color), in expectation of a lesson. The trials in which the attention is undivided are, how- ever, hot numerous. Gray is added. In the one hundred twelfth and one hundred thirteenth weeks live tests yielded the follow- ing answers: