. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . e. In trying to reproducestories I and II and to write of a trip in a flying-machine, she wrote 9, 6, and 4 lines re-spectively, being a hotch potclisuch as a fat pig a hoig toleand a good heven Cand asometime cand, etc. Insteadof writing similars and oppo-sites, in the tests for these, sheeither copied the words withstrange transpositions andchanges, or occasionally wrotesome apparently unrelatedword or series of letters. Shecrossed 4&
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . e. In trying to reproducestories I and II and to write of a trip in a flying-machine, she wrote 9, 6, and 4 lines re-spectively, being a hotch potclisuch as a fat pig a hoig toleand a good heven Cand asometime cand, etc. Insteadof writing similars and oppo-sites, in the tests for these, sheeither copied the words withstrange transpositions andchanges, or occasionally wrotesome apparently unrelatedword or series of letters. Shecrossed 4<; and 77 As in twominutes each, with no ler tapping record counted tonearly normal, but she showedexceedingly poor control, tens-ing her fingers into knots,hammering the key, etc. Shesometimes became so awkward and her muscles would be-come so tensely knotted that she could hardly continue tap-ping even when coached. Of a kind with these results of the tests for motor con-trol is Hildas conduct when crossed or angry. The attendants report that she has violent fits of temper in which shethrows herself on the ground and butts her head, and she. \ s:::s*.*l >? -—- ^ t HILDA ]•;. CLINICAL STUDIES OF BORDER CASES. I 15 sometimes kicks playmates severely and does them otherviolence. She continues her record of fighting and also ofstealing and lying. We have, then, a case of unstable motor and mental con-trol shown in the almost convulsive manifestations in themotor tests and in the fits of temper and of violence; shownequally in her restlessness and weak attention, and possibly inher inability to mentally direct her movements of the deep-seated infection shown in the keratitis, withher bad habits sexual and otherwise and her inability to profitby instruction, she is evidently best cared for in an institution,in spite of the small amount of intelligence retardation. CASE 23.— Emo-tionally Hered-ity and Fair In
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