BABY’S PSYCHOLOGY
IMPORTANCE OF FIRST YEAR. The first year of baby’s life, if scientifically recorded, will foreshadow characteristics that will develop in adult years—this is the theory on which psychologists of Yale University are now working. In this study motion pictures of children at play are being used in a novel way. Beginning at about the age of two months babies are placed in a photographic dome and provided with red balls and bells with which to play. Results indicate that the child is indeed father to the man, according to Dr. Arnold Gesell, who is the originator of the experiments. “They show,” he says, “that individual differences in capacity, emotional characteristics, personality traits, and bodily features declare themselves early and are comparable in kind and degree, to those observed later in life.” From this Dr. Gesell concludes, that the belief, held widely here and abroad that all human development depends on environment and trainipg is erroneous.
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Southland Times, Issue 21337, 7 March 1931, Page 10
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