Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
MOTOR HUNGER" MAKING BOYS
FIVE TIMES LATER THAN GIRLS
Russian Psychologist Reports 80 Per Cent
Of Pupils Given Test Deny Affection.
Poor More Satisfied Than Rich.

as an object of mothering, or an older
brother as protection or a social as
set. The nearer the child came to being
the last in the family, the more salts
fed she was, Busemann found. He
found that dissatisfaction with the fam
lily position and environment increased
with the age of the child.
Large-Family Effect.
1.-THE larger the family the more sat
isfied the child usually is" says the
report. The psychologist explains this
as being due to such factors as "the
lack of differentiation of personalities
in larger families, the social adaptation
which such families encourage and the
fact that in such families a camaTaderie
may grow up between brothers and sis
tiers. That children of poorer families
apparently more satisfied with their lot
Is apparently due to lower standard
and to lack of differentiation, as there
was certainly no more true affection In
these families than in the families OF
weather. persons"
The European laboratories, as re-
vealed by these abstracts of their ex-
periments, have been busy trying to shed
more light on the weird phenomenon
Of eidetic images, closely approaching
Authorizations, in children. The German
psychologist, E. Lehman, studying a
group. of 834 girls, found the images
most frequent in about the twelfth year
and very rare between Is and II. AL
though in adults they seemed related
to artistic proclivities no relation was
found between them and scholastic
ability. Lehman retested various
theories which relate these visions" to
physical conditions - especially def
cheney of calcium due to a parathyroid
gland defect, specific conditions OF the
blood scapillaries, and over-activity OF
the thyroid gland. He was able to ind
no relationship.
Other experiments with eidetic images
were made by the German psychologist.
Franz Roess1er, who found that they
occur with the greatest frequency among
6-year -olds. Nearly all persons with a
strong eidetic tendency can produce
the images, always of things seen which
reappear later as real, at will. They very
of fright. Roessler found memory for
colors after long intervals most marked
among persons with strong eidetic
tendencies.
Types Of Personality.
The European psychologists, it is
shown, are busy trying to At human
beings into personality types by which
may be predicted the sort of man or
woman a child will become.
Helmut Zoepffel attempts to build up
classifying system from experiments
with 20 infants who, at four or five
day intervals, were subjected to 10 sue
cesSive experiments in sight, hearing.
touch and taste stimulation. He graded
the children on the intensity and quail
ity of their responses to these stimuli
and classified them as to whether these
we're quick or slow, constant or not.
intense or superficial. The method
justifies, he holds, expert opinion on
their personalities, fact which is Of
practical Importance in adoption"
The Russian psychologist, v. Fadeyev,
makes classification into excitable, in
hibitory and liable types of individuals
from the conditioned ref1exes to food
are built up with the flashing of lights
He believes these classifications will
hold through life.
The French psychologist, A. Ferriere,
postulates system of types based on a
comparison of the evolutionary develop
velopment Of the individual. First, he
patriarchal where everything Is CEN
tered in the family, third the stage of
revolution of the individual against
authority imposed from without, and
fourth the stage Of mutual responsible
ity and refieXive liberty.
The growing child. he says, normally
passes through these stages in the de-
velopment of the race, but becomes
Sidetracked at some particular level.
The character traits which belong to
that level become dominant Thus he
Classics the senSory, conventional, In
tuitive and rational types of individuals.