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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![tion; and something is ‘binding’ the books; a mark is also given for the material qualification ‘made of wood.’ In all John obtains 26 marks. John s ’s Second Spontaneous Report. “A boy was sitting on a chair near a table, and his mother was giving him some bread. Under the table was a vase, and on the flour [floor] was a booh. The door was open and by it was a box, and on the box was a flower-pot with a plant in it. The window teas open. The lady was wearing a blouse, an apron, and a shirt. On the table was a hnife. The lady ivas going to cut some bread, and the boy was eating a piece of bread and butter. The vase was a green one. The plant in the flower-pot on the box had several leaves on it. The boy had his feet on one of the rails of the chair. The boy was wearing a pair of shoes.” Marking of John S ’s Second Report. It is obvious that the questions have influenced many of the statements, and that there is a consid- erable improvement on the work of the previous week; but also noticeable is the exact repetition of some of the sentences of the first report. Marks for enumeration total 19. The boy was ‘sitting’ and ‘eating’ bread. That the mother was ‘giving him bread,’ or ‘just going to cut bread’ were not regarded as observed activities. Of course, strictly speaking, no activity in a motion- less picture can be other than an inferred activity, but the inferences in these cases were considered too far away from their observational basis.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28123190_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
