The Mind of the Child, Part II | Page 7

(276).
Imitative Movements.--Beckoning imitated (285).
Expressive Movements.--Laughing becomes more conscious and

intelligent (299). Crying in sleep (308). Striking hands together in sleep
(319). Object pointed at is carried to mouth and chewed (322). Body
straightened in anger (324). This not intentional (326).
INTELLECT.
Forty-third week, knowledge of weight of bodies (I, 50). A child
missed his parents when they were absent, also a single nine-pin of a
set (7, 8).
Speech.--Child can not repeat a syllable heard (77). In monologue,
syllables are more distinct, loud, and varied when child is left to
himself than when other persons entertain him: ndä[)e], b[=a]ë-b[=a]ë,
ba ell, arrö. Frequent are mä, pappa, tatta, appapa, babba, tätä, pa,
rrrr, rrra. Hints at imitation (108).
Feeling of Self.--Forty-first week, striking his own body and foreign
objects (191). Forty-first to forty-fourth week, image in mirror laughed
at and grasped at (198).
ELEVENTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--Direction of Look.--Forty-seventh week, child throws down
objects and looks after them (49).
Seeing Near and Distant Objects.--Forty-fourth week, new objects no
longer carried to eyes, but gazed at and felt. Forty-seventh week,
accommodation perfect (55).
Interpretation of what is seen.--Trying to fixate objects (63).
HEARING.--Screaming is quieted by a "Sh!" or by singing. Three
hundred and nineteenth day, difference in sound of spoon on plate
when plate was touched by hand (87).
TASTE.--Meat-broth with egg taken; scalded skimmed milk rejected;
dry biscuit liked (126).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Forty-fourth week,
astonishment at strange face (173).
WILL.
Instinctive Movements.--Forty-fifth week, grasping at flame of lamp;
forty-seventh, at objects behind a pane of glass; gain in moving
muscles of arm; shreds of paper handled (252). Biting father's hand
(261). Smacking lips (262). Sitting becomes habit for life (268).
Standing without support; stamping; but standing only for a moment
(269). End of forty-seventh week, feet well placed, but lifted too high
and put down too hard (276).
Expressive Movements.--Grasping at his image with laugh; jubilant
noise at being allowed to walk (299).
Deliberate Movements.--Striking spoon against object and exchanging
objects (326, 327). Child takes biscuit, carries it to mouth, bites off a
bit, chews and swallows it; but can not drink from glass (329).
INTELLECT.
Syllables correctly repeated; intentional sound-imitation on the three
hundred and twenty-ninth day. Forty-fifth week, response made for
diversion: whispering begins (109). Three kinds of r-sounds: new
syllables, ta-h[(ee], dann-tee, [(aa]-n[(ee], ngä, tai, bä, dall, at-tall,
kamm, akkee, praï-jer, tra, [=a]-h[(ee]. Some earlier sounds frequent;
consonants b, p, t, d, m, n, r; l, g, k: vowel a most used, u and o rare, i
very rare (110). Accentuation not frequent (111). Association of idea
with utterance in one case (111, 122). Forty-fifth week, to word "papa,"
response rrra (113).
Feeling of Self.--Forty-fifth to fifty-fifth week, discovery of his power
to cause changes (192).
TWELFTH MONTH.
SENSES.

SIGHT.--Seeing Near and Distant Objects.--Fifty-first week, pleasure
in seeing men sawing wood at distance of more than one hundred feet
(55).
HEARING.--Screaming quieted by "Sh!" (87). Three hundred and
sixty-third day, hears noise in next room and looks in direction of
sound (88).
TASTE.--Fastidious about food (126).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Grunting as indication
of pleasure (144). Fifty-second week, astonishment at new sound (173).
WILL.
Impulsive Movements.--Accompanying movement of hand in drinking
(209).
Instinctive Movements.--Child seized father's hand, carried it to mouth
and bit it (261). Forty-eighth week, standing without support a moment;
stamping; pushing a chair (276). Forty-ninth week, child can not raise
himself without help or stand more than an instant. Fiftieth week, can
not place himself on his feet, or walk without help (277).
Imitative Movements.--Trying to strike with spoon on tumbler; puffing
repeated in sleep (287).
Expressive Movements.--End of year, imitative laughing; crowing (299).
Laughing in sleep (300). Opening of mouth in kissing (305). Arms
stretched out in desire (322).
Deliberate Movements.--Biscuit put into mouth with few failures;
drinking from glass, breathing into the water (329).
INTELLECT.
Ideas gained before language (78). Logical activity applied to
perceptions of sound (I, 88). Abstraction, whiteness of milk (18).

Speech.--Imitation more successful, but seldom correct. Articulate
sounds made spontaneously: haja, jajajajaja, aja, njaja, naïn-hopp,
ha-a, pa-a, d[=e]wär, han-na, mömma, allda, alldaï, apa-u-a, gägä, ka,
ladn; atta is varied, no more dada; w for the first time. Ability to
discriminate between words (112). Fifty-second week, child of himself
obeys command, "Give the hand!" Quieting effect of sounds "sh, ss, st,
pst" (113).
Feeling of Self.--Striking hard substances against teeth; gnashing teeth
(189). Tearing of paper continued (192).
THIRTEENTH MONTH.
SENSES.
HEARING.--Child strikes on keys of piano; pleased with singing of
canary-bird (89).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Laughing almost
invariably follows the laugh of others (145). Sleep, fourteen hours daily
(162).
WILL.
Instinctive Movements.--Standing some moments without support (270).
Fifty-third week, creeping. Fifty-fourth week, walking, with support;
movements in creeping asymmetrical (277).
Expressive Movements.--No idea of kissing (305). Shaking head in
denial