Outlines of Psychology With Special Reference to the Theory of Education
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This suggests that a child at this early stage when first seizing the meaning of a negation is wont to set forth explicitly the negation implied in an aflfir- mation. As intelligence develops the child becomes capable of judging not only about particular objects but about classes. Thus he picks up and repeats the general statements made by those about him as for example, * naughty children play with the dirt '. The growth of the power of judging is marked by an increase oii a cautious and criti...cal spirit in relation to affirmation. "What is seen is described more accurately The tendencies to exaggerate, to misstate, due to the influ- ence of feeling (the desire to astonish, amuse, and so on) are curbed. The tendency to give reality to the fictions of fancy is restrained. The child's wider Digitized by Google 438 JUDGMENT AND REASONING. experience supplies him with a rudimentary standard of what is possible and impossible, probable and im- probable. Further, the statements of others are inspected and criticised, and so the power of denying or negating strengthened.
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