Moto-sensory development : observations on the first three years of a child / by George V. N. Dearborn.
- Dearborn, George Van Ness, 1869-
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Moto-sensory development : observations on the first three years of a child / by George V. N. Dearborn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![INDUCTIONS. [The following considerations seem to be sug- gested by the herein-noted observations of this child. This is no implication that other observations have not and may not show their inadequacy or even re- fute them. These inductions are offered for no more than they are worth; their order here is of no sig- nificance.] I. Inhibition is a fundamental function obviously fully developed at birth. It is then purely a reflex process set in action most readily by touch and hear- ing, but is influenced also by vision. The general presence of inhibition in the infant greatly complicates the interpretation of child-be- havior, for we can seldom know how large a part the restraining influence takes in the algebraic bal- ance of reactions. The development of voluntary inhibition some- what precedes the evolution of voluntary move- ment. II. The left side of the body seems both more reflex and somewhat more precocious than the right side. In other words, it seems to be more distinctly the mechanical implement of the organism's will, while the last is still largely reflex. III. The inherited outfit of the child may not unreasonably be deemed to involve processes that are usually classed as distinctively ''mental,—for example perhaps a reflex sort of simple recognition. In other words, the separation of a human being's](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21175019_0209.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
