Children's perceptions : an experimental study of observations and reports in school children / by W. H. Winch.
- Winch, W. H. (William Henry)
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Children's perceptions : an experimental study of observations and reports in school children / by W. H. Winch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![boy’s chair there is a green pot. On the table there is a knife. The mother has a black scourt [skirt] a blue aprin with white spots she has a lace bonit. The boy is eating a slice of cake. The door was wide open and the window was shut. The boy had a brown jacket and a brown coat and a brown waist- coat. And the boy is opening his mouth wide. The colour of the bowl is brown the colour of the bowl inside is a kind of yellowish white. The kind of cake that the boy is [eating] is yellow with currants. The cealing is paited blue. The knife has a yellow handle, the side in which you have to cut with is made of solid? silver. The lady has brown slipers. The boy has heavy lace up boots. The lady has grey hair and the little boy has brown hair. I cannot tell you anything about the mother and the little boy father, because he is not there.” Marking of Jessie D ’s Second Report. The influence of the preceding week’s questioning seems obvious, but rather in the direction of induc- ing the child to make statements of some kind than in improving the accuracy; though, as the answers to the second set of questions will show, some ad- vance in accuracy has been made. The esthetic and moral judgments have disappeared, but there is more enumeration and descriptive qualifications of things than before. Of enumerations we have 23. Three actions are included: the boy is ‘sitting’ and ‘eating’ and ‘opening his mouth.’ Of positional ref- erences there are 10. The descriptive qualifications are as follow: the flower-pot is ‘brown;’ the leaves are ‘green;’ the pot](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28123190_0151.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
