Psychomotor Aspects of Mental Disease: An Experimental Study

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Commonwealth Fund, 1954 - Medical - 185 pages
The study of certain psychomotor aspects of mental disease to be reported in the present experiment is based, in the broadest sense, on the notion that the power of animate organisms to move is their most striking characteristic and serves an important function in all of the adaptive activities of human and animal life. The capability of spontaneous and rapid motor response to stimulation, internal and external, forms the most basic distinction of animal life from other forms of living matter. All animals, from the most primitive forms to man, share this response characteristic and exhibit its operation in their adjustment to the world about them. -- Pg. 3.

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Introduction and Formulation of the Problem
3
Selection and Description of the Test Battery
11
Experimental Groups and Procedure
28
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