Psycho-motor capacity varies with grade of intelligence, with epileptic children responding most slowly¶

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q2 i? Form-board scores order by group: bright children surpass average, average surpass dull or backward, backward surpass feeble-minded, higher grades of feeble-minded surpass lower, and feeble-minded surpass epileptic children. → Wallin 1915

Evidence¶

Wallin 1915¶

Wallin, J. E. W. (1915). Age Norms of Psycho-Motor Capacity. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Age+Norms+of+Psycho-Motor+Capacity

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Comparative analysis of form-board records across ability groups among the over 4000 children tested. The author reports the full ordering of group means and adds that "of all types of children studied by the writer the epileptic respond the most slowly."

"The bright children surpass the average children, the average surpass the dull or backward, the backward surpass the feeble-minded, the higher grades of feeble-minded surpass the lower grades, and the feeble-minded surpass the epileptic."

Discussion¶

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