Chapter 2: A New Method of Child Study
1. Critical...In endeavoring to bring questions like the degree of memory, recognition, association, etc., present in an infant, to a practical test, considerable embarrassment has always been experienced in construing the child's responses safely. Of course the only way a child's mind can be studied is ( Read more... )

Chapter 1: Infant and Race Psychology
4. Variations in Ontogeny ...In this matter of the interpretation of the whole infancy period, including both prenatal and postnatal infancy, however, there seem to be two influences at work which tend to opposite results. We have seen that abundant food supply in the conditions of embryonic or prenatal life ( Read more... )

Chapter 1: Infant and Race Psychology
2. Race Psychology: Phylogenesis...The phrase 'Race Psychology' is commonly used in a narrow sense, having reference to the characteristic mental peculiarities of various peoples, tribes, stages of civilization, cults, etc. That is, the word 'race' is applied to the human race. The points of comparison, on the ( Read more... )

Chapter 1: Infant and Race Psychology
I. Infant and Race Psychology: Ontogenesis, the Genetic Point of View...There is around every one of us a web of convention and prejudice of our own making. Not only do we reflect the social formalities of our environment, and thus lose the distinguishing spontaneities of childhood, but each one of us builds up ( Read more... )