Special talents and defects : $b Their significance for educationHollingworth, Leta Stetter
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Special talents and defects : $b Their significance for education
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter
Educational psychology; Educational tests and measurements; Exceptional children
The suggestion also arises as to whether those performances which do not
cohere closely with performances in general are such as involve the
sensori-motor apparatus to a special degree, as distinguished from the
central nervous system. Those functions which depend relatively little
upon equipment of eye, ear, or hand, but essentially upon the
sensitivity and integrity of the cortical neurones, might be expected to
cohere closely, constituting what we should properly call intelligence.
Where performance depends largely on sense organs and muscles, the
correlation with functions largely independent of sensori-motor
apparatus might be expected to be only as great as the tendency to
general organic quality would bring about. Certainly drawing, music, and
mechanical ability, for example, involve eye, ear, and muscle to a much
greater extent than does the detection of absurdities in life
situations, or the learning of symbolic significances. The mechanical
technique of reading clearly involves the sensori-motor apparatus to a
much greater extent than does the comprehension of what is read.
It would be valuable to determine to what extent a hierarchy of
correlations would be consistently maintained in the use of tests,
selected for graduated degrees of involvement of equipment accessory to
the central nervous system.[8]
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