The Intelligence Of The Feeble Minded

Nowhere does Binet's genius show more brilliantly than in this work. That he in the midst of a busy life and in addition to all his other work could have acquired so great a knowledge of mental defectives is amazing; the more so when we realize that it was first-hand knowledge gained from observation backed by keen perception, that perception that enabled him to see the truth with a quickness that makes the rest of us, still groping in the dark, question if it was truth Binet saw. But that it was truth we are learning every day. - Summary by Henry H. Goddard

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Introduction. Preliminaries 10:25 Read by Leon Harvey
I. Character-The Rebellious and the Docile 24:09 Read by Leon Harvey
II. Attention from the Point of View of its Concentration 12:28 Read by Leon Harvey
III. Voluntary Effort 25:36 Read by Leon Harvey
IV. Movements in Writing 8:00 Read by Leon Harvey
V. Intelligence and Perception 16:55 Read by Leon Harvey
VI. The Sense of Pain 13:44 Read by Leon Harvey
VII. Association of Ideas in the Feeble-Minded 18:42 Read by Leon Harvey
VIII. Activity of the Intelligence Distinguished from the Level of the Intelligence 22:42 Read by Leon Harvey
IX. The Number Sense and the Arithmetrical Faculty 20:02 Read by Leon Harvey
X. Reasoning 18:52 Read by Leon Harvey
XI. Suggestibility through Docility 28:14 Read by Leon Harvey
XII. How a Moron may have an Esprit Faux 19:48 Read by Leon Harvey
XIII. A Scheme of Thought 1:00:37 Read by Leon Harvey
PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF THE FEEBLE MINDED. I. A New Psychogenetic Method 6:53 Read by Leon Harvey
II. Aphasia and the Psychology of Language 4:35 Read by Leon Harvey
III. An Observation of an Imbecile. Scientific Determination of her Level 13:22 Read by Leon Harvey
IV. Analysis of the State of Langauge of this Imbecile. 15:51 Read by Leon Harvey
V. Discussion of Three Hypotheses upon hte Absence of Speech in our Subject 8:21 Read by Leon Harvey
VI. The Psychological Condition of Speech. Experiments and Theory 16:16 Read by Leon Harvey
VII. Comparison between Aphasia properly so-called and the Poverty of Language of the Low Grade Imbecile 12:30 Read by Leon Harvey
VIII. The Function of Language as a Sign of Human Intelligence 10:10 Read by Leon Harvey
IX. The Evolution of Language 25:25 Read by Leon Harvey
X. The Relation between Langauge and Thought 15:52 Read by Leon Harvey
PART III. FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS AND DEMENTIA. I. The Intellectual Weakening in General Paralysis 31:13 Read by Leon Harvey
II. The Minor Psychological Sign of General Paralysis. Part 1. 43:06 Read by Leon Harvey
II. The Minor Psychological Sign of General Paralysis. Part 2. 38:08 Read by Leon Harvey
III. Difference between the Two Notions of Functioning and Development 51:30 Read by Leon Harvey
IV. Distinction between Ideational Intelligence and Instinctive Intelligence 48:02 Read by Leon Harvey
Conclusion 5:35 Read by Leon Harvey