Schwabe Schema
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
The Schwabe Schema is a framework for understanding the psychological development of children in their first three years of life, divided into twelve age stages with observational and experimental components.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
Schwabe Schema (Schwabe) represents a scheme for orienting oneself in the question of the mental development of children in the first three years of life. It is divided into twelve age stages. The developmental test for a child of each age group is divided into sections A and B, where A is observation of the child's independent manifestations, and B is experimentation. Up to 3 months, Schwabe builds his scheme on the observation of physiological manifestations of life and the study of reflexes to external stimuli. Starting from the 4th-6th month, purely psychological experiments are also applied—recognition of familiar faces, manifestation of joy and fear. The complete S. s. is given in Jahrb. fur Kinderh., 1927, Vol. 107; in Russian it is given in the report by Lomakin and Golubeva-Malchevskaya in the Proceedings of the III All-Union Congress of Pediatricians in 1925.
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“Schwabe Schema.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/schwabe-schema/