ABSTRACT
Perception, memory, imagination, thought dealS with separate parts and fragments of the child's psychic life. Personality is a life unity influenced by various aims, a whole whose forces work in definite directions. The word "effort", with all its derivatives, must be understood in its widest sense, that is as belonging to the entire personality, not only as purely conscious effort. The endeavour to reach some aim is a primitive fact which forms part of the psychologically neutral personality. The importance and difficulty of the subject make it imperative that we should first show the most important features of the development of effort as it presents itself to the personal conviction, that we should further discuss the chief qualities of effort in early childhood.
