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Title: The individual delinquent; a text-book of diagnosis and prognosis for all concerned in understanding offenders
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Healy, William, 1869-
Subjects: Criminal anthropology Criminals Juvenile delinquency Psychology, Pathological Juvenile Delinquency Criminology
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ent, or situation, or in a sequence of ideas or perceptions.This process of apperception, according to the complexities in-volved, involves combining mental material, directly presentedas perception, with what is already in the mental content. Theperson with so-called quick perceptions, or good understanding,is the one who has apperceptive ability in full measure. Accord-ing to Ebbinghaus (105), whose scheme for verbally testing thepower to discern relationships between separate ideas has beengiven wide recognition, we have in the performance of testswhich call out the above powers, the opportunity of getting anestimate of general intelligence. Of course all of our tests callout to some degree the ability to put what is already in the mindtogether with what is immediately presented, but any testwhich more directly serves to estimate this important ability isaltogether worth while. The Ebbinghaus Completion Test re-quires the insertion of words or syllables for the completion of the 96
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XI rn n O ^11 o ft >. M H d > OJ T3 02 o a 03 H cr ^OJ hJ Ph 0)03 C -fl Chap. VI) APPERCEPTION (§ /i3 sense of a passage from which various parts have been omitted.^The subject has to draw on his stock of words and ideas aboutthe relationships of things for the performance of this Comple-tion Test. For our purposes, although we see the great value ofestimating some of the powers called forth by these completiontests, certain of the requirements are clearly adventitious. Itis the same old trouble; there is involved in this form of test,through its use of language, entirely too much dependence onthe acquaintance with words and particularly with language asvisually presented. In testing apperception in this way subjectswho have had the advantage of much language training, havean immense advantage, which is unfair for our general study ofoffenders. It occurred to me that perhaps the

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