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Developmental lines of achievement

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A technique for identifying prerequisite skills for achieving new skills has shown significant results. The occurrence of a specific behavior only if associated with another specific behavior was found to be significant in 10 pairs of items for a group of 50 children evaluated on 100 items. These findings support the concept that the sequence of ego integration can be identified. A developmental line of achievement is identified by finding a sequence of behaviors that are associated by theirinterdependence in occurrence and that are chronologically ordered.

Prerequisite skills for the ability to count include an association of behavior skills in the sensorimotor, social, and verbal areas of development, and the social interaction contributing to discrimination useful for counting is one of the findings discussed. The motivation for acquisition of the skills leading to counting ability is described to be the reduction of anxiety about controlling attachment.

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  1. Children's Psychiatric Center, Inc., 59 Broad Street, 07724, Eatontown, New Jersey

    Richard H. Smith M.D. (Medical Director)

  2. Children's Unit, Metropolitan State Hospital, 02154, Waltham, Massachusetts

    Mayin Lau M.A. (Director of Psychology)

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  1. Richard H. Smith M.D.
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Smith, R.H., Lau, M. Developmental lines of achievement. Child Psych Hum Dev 5, 117–125 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01433273

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