The Psychology Of Special Abilities And Disabilities

Augusta F Bronner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136312519
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

This is Volume III of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1917, in this book an attempt has been made to discuss practical aspects of special abilities and disabilities, to offer in detail methods of attacking problem-cases, and to present various types, both (a) of particular disabilities in those who have normal general ability and (b) of particular abilities in those who are below normal in general capacities.

INDEX

ABBOTT AND KUHLMANN, 89

Ability, special, in handwork, 210;

in language, 204 f.;

in number work, 201;

in rote memory, 214

Ability to follow directions,tests for, 20

Abstractions, defect in forming,in number work, 69

Advantage of early study of mental processes, 227

Age to begin study of mental processes, 226!

Agraphia, 36

Aim of education, 41

Alcoholism, differential diag

nosis of, 33

Alexia, 36, 79

Amnesia visualis verbalis, 86 Aphasia, 36;

congenital, 83;

McCall's case of, 83

Apperception, 17

Apperceptive ability among subnormals, 199

Arithmetic, defect for, case of, 56, 61, 65, 67, 69, 72, 73;

elementary, factors in, 52;

Arithmetical ability, correlation with memory, 54

Arithmetical problems, reasoning involved in, 54

Arithmetical processes, imagery in, 53;

psychology of, 50

Artistic abilities, individual differences in, 164

Association processes, 18

Associations, defect in forming,case of, 61

Attention, 21;

defects in, 163

Attitude, 37

Auditory powers, defect in, 92

BABRWALD, RICHARD, 79

Bonser, F. G., 19

Border-line cases of mentality, 216

Brissaud, M., 84

Bronner, A. F., 37

Burt, Cyril, 3

CATTELL, J. MCK., 76

Chorea, differential diagnosis of, 31

Coffee, excessive use of, 32

Compensation in mental life, 12, 224

Concept of number, defect for forming, 65, 67;

development of, 51 ff.

Congenital aphasia, 83

Congenital word-blindness, 36, 79ff.

Congenital word-deafness, 36, 90

Constitutional inferiority, differential diagnosis of, 36.

Control of actions, defects in, 166

Correlations, between mental functions, 12;

in phases of memory, 119

Curricula, different types, 47

DAVENPORT, C. B., 167

Dearborn, W. F., 76

Defect, of inner visual functions, 128;

of memory, 118;

in attention, 163;

in auditor memory for numbers, case of, 56, 61;

in auditory powers, 92;

in control of actions, 166;

in forming abstractions in number work, case of, 69;

in forming associations,case of, 61;

in general language ability, case of, 110, 112;

in imagination, 165;

in inventive ability, 165;

in mentalcontrol,case of, 168, 174, 178, 180, 185, 189, 192;

in mental representation, 154;

ease of, 156;

in number work,inadequate testing for, 72, 73;

in perceptions of relationship, 159;

case of, 160;

in perceptual abilities, 149;

case of, 150;

in powers of inhibition, 167;

in solving problems with concrete material, case of, 140, 143;

in speed of reactions, 45;

case of, 146;

in visual powers, case of, 97;

for forming concept of number,case of, 65, 67;

for reading due possibly to defect in synthetic processes,case of, 100, 104;

for solving problems with concrete material, 138

Defectives unfit for motor training, case of, 197

Dementia praecox, 34

Dewey, John, 42, 50

Diagnosis, differential, need for, 23

Differential diagnosis, need for, 23;

of special ability, 24;

Disabilities, see DEFECTS

Diseases of the brain, causing defects, 36

Distractibility, 164

Dodge and Erdmann, 76

ECKHARDT, K., 52, 53

Elective courses in schools, 46

Elimination from school, 44

Emotions, testing of, 21

Epilepsy, differential diagnosis of, 31;

Erdmann and Dodge, 76

Eye movements in reading, 76

FEEBLE-MINDED, definition of British Royal Commission,case of, 100, 104;

Illinois statute for commitment, 9 note

Feeble-mindedness,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• I THE PROBLEM
• II METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS
• III DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
• IV SOME PRESENT EDUCATIONAL TENDENCIES
• V SPECIAL DEFECTS IN NUMBER WORK
• VI SPECIAL DEFECTS IN LANGUAGE ABILITY
• VII. SPECIAL DEFECTS IN SEPARATE MENTAL PROCESSES
• VIII DEFECTS IN MENTAL CONTROL
• IX SPECIAL ABILITIES WITH GENERAL MENTAL SUB-NORMALITY
• X GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
• APPENDIX
• Index