ors._--Color-tests, from one hundred and
fourteenth to one hundred and sixteenth week, four trials, colors mixed;
result, 59 right, 22 wrong (11). Blue especially confounded with violet,
also with green. Four trials in one hundred and fourteenth and one
hundred and fifteenth weeks; result, 58 right, 32 wrong (12). Two trials
in one hundred and fifteenth week; result, 25 right, 16 wrong (13).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Uncomfortable feeling through pity;
child weeps if human forms cut out of paper are in danger of mutilation
(150, 151).
WILL.
_Instinctive Movements._--Pleasure in climbing begins (280).
INTELLECT.
_Speech._--Activity of thought. Observation and comparison. Gratitude
does not appear (161). Wishes expressed by verbs in the infinitive or by
substantives. Adverbs; indefinite pronouns. Seven hundred and
ninety-sixth day, makes the word _Messen_ (162). _Wola_ and _atta_ have
almost disappeared. Independent applications of words (163). Monologues
less frequent. Begs apple to give to a puppet. Echolalia prominent.
Tones and noises imitated (164). Laughing when others laugh; fragments
of a dialogue repeated. Feeble memory for answers and numbers. Eight
hundred and tenth day, gave his own name for first time in answer to a
question (165). No question yet asked by the child. The article is not
used. Pronunciation slowly becoming correct (166).
TWENTY-EIGHTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--_Discrimination of Colors._--One hundred and twenty-first week,
greater uncertainty (13).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Fear of pigs (168).
WILL.
_Instinctive Movements._--Going on all-fours; jumping, climbing gives
pleasure (280).
INTELLECT.
_Speech._--Rapid increase of activity in forming ideas, and greater
certainty in use of words. Ambition; observation and combination;
beginning of self-control; use of his own name and of names of parents;
independent thinking (167). Increase in number of words correctly
pronounced; attempt to use prepositions; first intelligent use of the
article (168). Questioning active; first spontaneous question on eight
hundred and forty-fifth day. "Where?" is his only interrogative word.
Reproduction of foreign expressions (169). Imagination lively; paper
cups used like real ones. Articulation better, but still deficient. Many
parts of the body named correctly (170). Child makes remarks for a
quarter of an hour at a time concerning objects about him, sings,
screams in
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