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Page 18 - I propose to show in this book that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world.
Page 389 - This seems to indicate that the mental similarities of children of the same parents are due primarily to heredity rather than to similarity of environment since the resemblance is no greater in those traits which are...
Page 178 - one who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but is incapable, from mental defect existing from birth or from an early age, a) : of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows; or b) : of managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence.
Page 54 - Its tendency to take and maintain a definite direction; (2) the capacity to make adaptations for the purpose of attaining a desired end; and ( 3 ) the power of auto-criticism.
Page 55 - ... have always thought of intelligence as the ability of the individual to adapt himself adequately to relatively new situations in life. It seems to include the capacity for getting along well in all sorts of situations. This implies ease and rapidity in making adjustments and, hence, ease in breaking old habits and in forming new ones. Fundamentally, this leads us back to the general modifiability of the nervous system. An organism whose nervous system is very modifiable can adjust itself quickly...
Page 387 - One hundred sixty-four or 54% of the remaining 300 histories show other feeble-minded persons in such numbers or in such relation to the individual case studied as to leave no doubt of the hereditary character of the mental defect. In these cases it is evident from the charts themselves that we are dealing with a condition of mind or brain which is transmitted as regularly and surely as color of hair or eyes.
Page 115 - What ought you to say when some one asks your opinion about a person you don't know very well?" (b) "What ought you to do before undertaking (beginning) something very important?" (c) "Why should we judge a person more by his actions than by his words?
Page 57 - Here, the view supported is that all performances depend to a certain degree upon one and the same general common factor, provisionally termed ' General Ability.' Correlations are thus produced between all sorts of performances, the amount of correlation being simply proportional to the extent that the performances concerned involve the use of this general common factor, or
Page 55 - Intelligence is a general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements: it is general mental adaptability to new problems and conditions of life.
Page 113 - He went fishing every day. (c) We will go out for a long walk. Please give me my pretty straw hat.