16 PERSONALITY OF THE PRESCHOOL CHILD which is extracted from an extensive situation. O. Schneider gives the following example:<50T> * "To the question, how old are you? there results the extensive answer: Hilde is two years old, I am three, Rud! is five years old." A kiss is not only a kiss, it is a morning kiss, or an evening kiss, or a good-by kiss. Just as primitive people, as Wertheimerf re- ports, often use different numerals for counting different things— e.g., special numerals when counting eggs, and other numerals when counting pigs—so the chUd sees object and situation as one in- separable unity. The child considers two different things, such as a "sna2" and the "nurse," as one inseparable unity for his experience of a certain situation, because only the close connection of both elements made the experience as such. Just as the child does not consider the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears of a person separately but as parts of a whole, so he does not consider parts of one experience separately. The logic of the child and his concrete type of thinking make it impossible for him to believe that the words for objects need not have a concrete meaning. Thus the daughter of William Stern asks:cm) "Do nightingales always make night?" When, at the age of almost 4, she heard that somebody lived on Garden Street, she asked: als this a rose garden or a grass garden street?" William Stem's son, when 4 years of age, remarked: "Ocean is called thus because sometimes, if one sees it, one says, oh, oh!" (said with amazement). If the child hears that tables have legs, a cup an ear, a needle an eye, it is logical that the child develops an animistic world concept, Whaa man aad animals have a father and a mother, why should there not exist a "daddy mushroom" and a "niummy mushroom," why should not rivers have parents, and "Hudson" not mean mm of Hud, and "Mississippi" Miss Issippi? If the angels are flying in heaven, then, as 5-year-old Ben says, ^ are like airplanes. There are lots of them singing around." C A, Probst(€78> gives tlie following examples of children's to Ms questions: "A plumber is one who plumbs—he is pills out plums." "Beans are made by bees." ^ the dhfld, words are not only a means for expressing but the child may use them as a simple expression of *»„ £4.