Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
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Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
The child at this age has usually learned to walk quite erectly without
hesitation to any desired location. If the child is placed upon a
“kiddie-kar” his first reaction is to run it backward, but by the age of
two years he should be able to guide it well in going forward. Some
attempts will be made at running and a great many attempts at climbing
by the time the child has reached this age.
THREE YEARS
At three years of age a child when asked to point out different parts of
its body (nose, eyes, mouth, and hair) can do so without hesitation.
Familiar objects, such as a key, a penny, a pocketknife (closed), a
watch, and a pencil (common wooden) will be named at once if held out to
the child with the question, “What is this?”
The pictures used in the Stanford Revision of the Binet test may be
shown to the child with the direction “Tell me what you see in this
picture,” or “Look at the picture and tell me everything you can see in
it.” In response to such questions the child should be able to enumerate
different objects, such as the little girl, the window, the chair, and
the woman in the picture of the Dutch Home; or the men, the basket, and
the newspaper in the picture of the Post office.
At this age the child has had enough experience to be able to repeat its
last name and to know whether people call it a “girl” or a “boy.” The
question should be asked in the following fashion: “What is your name?”
If the answer is in terms of the given name only, then the question
should be amplified as follows: “Yes, but what is your other name?
Walter what?” If the surname is still not given, a fictitious one may be
framed and the question asked in some such fashion as follows: “Is your
name Walter Smith?” If the child is still unable to reply then it is
probable that he does not know the family name or is too frightened to
give it. In finding whether the child knows his sex the formula for a
boy should be: “Are you a little boy or a little girl?” For a girl the
question should be: “Are you a little girl or a little boy?”
At the age of three years a child should be able to repeat sentences
containing six or seven syllables. Those used by Terman are: (1) “I have
a little dog.” (2) “In summer the sun is hot.” (3) “The dog runs after
the cat.” In leading up to these repetitions it is well to ask the child
first to say single words, such as “school.” “Can you say school?” “Now
say, ‘I go to school.’” Then ask the child to say “I have a little dog.”
FOUR YEARS
By this time the child should be able to distinguish between circles,
squares, triangles, and other geometric forms. Ten drawings of circles,
squares, and triangles should be presented to the child and he should be
able to find one or two others just like the one to which the examiner
points.
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