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Page 335 - As early as the second month, it distinguishes its mother's or nurse's touch in the dark. It learns characteristic methods of holding, taking up, patting, kissing, etc., and adapts itself, by a marvellous accuracy of protestation or acquiescence, to these personal variations. Its associations of personality come to be of such importance that for a long time its happiness or misery depends upon the presence of certain kinds of
Page 358 - For, in Leibnitz's phrase, the boy or girl is a social monad, a little world, which reflects the whole system of influences coming to stir its sensibility. And just in as far as his sensibilities are stirred, he imitates, and forms habits of imitating; and habits ? — they are character!
Page 18 - Here are, therefore, four very distinct phases of the child's experience of persons not himself, all subsequent to his purely affective or pleasure-pain epoch ; first, persons are simply objects, parts of the material going on to be presented, mainly sensations which stand out strong, etc. ; second, persons are very peculiar objects, very interesting, very active, very arbitrary, very portentous of pleasure or pain. If we consider these objects as fully presented, ie. as in due relationship to one...
Page 357 - ... set in the actions, temper, emotions, of the persons who build around him the social inclosure of his childhood. It is only necessary to watch a two-year-old closely to see what members of the family are giving him his personal...
Page iii - MENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CHILD AND THE RACE. METHODS AND PROCESSES. BY JAMES MARK BALDWIN, MA, Ph.D., Stuart Professor of Psychology in Princeton University ; Author of " Handbook of Psychology," " Elements of Psychology "; Co-Editor of "The Psychological Review," WITH SEVENTEEN FIGURES AND TEN TABLES.
Page 337 - But it is only when a peculiar experience arises which we call effort that there comes that great line of cleavage in his experience which indicates the rise of volition, and which separates off the series now first really subjective. What has formerly been 'projective
Page 338 - My sense of myself grows by imitation of you, and my sense of yourself grows in terms of my sense of myself.
Page 4 - In the first place, the phenomena of the infant consciousness are simple as opposed to reflective; that is, they are the child's presentations or memories simply, not his own observations of them. In the adult consciousness the disturbing influences of inner observation is a matter of notorious moment. It is impossible for me to know exactly what I feel, for the apprehending of it through the attention alters its character. My volition also is a complex thing of alternatives, one of which is my personal...
Page 201 - We find that if by an organism we mean a thing merely of contractility or irritability, whose round of movements is kept up by some kind of nutritive process supplied by the environment — absorption, chemical action of atmospheric oxygen, etc. — and whose existence is threatened by dangers of contact and what not, the first thing to do is to secure a regular supply to the nutritive processes, and to avoid these contacts. But the organism can do nothing but move, as a whole or in some of its parts....
Page 447 - In persistent imitation the first reaction is not repeated. Hence we must suppose the development, in a new centre, of a function of co-ordination by which the two regions excited respectively by the original suggestion and the reported reaction coalesce in a common more voluminous and intense stimulation of the motor centre. A movement is thus produced which, by reason of its greater mass and diffusion, includes more of the elements of the