Experiment #18: School Belt, was presented by Erina, Patricia, and Ivy. In this presentation, they talked about the importance of the way in which children hold a spoon and brush for example. If the child does not correctly feed him or herself, the parent should try to guide them and teach them how to correctly go about feeding themselves. When using a specific object, a mental plan should be created that will help guide the way in which you will pick up the spoon or brush the first time you touch it. When a child tries to do the action on himself, for example, when feeding or brushing his/her hair, the child is bound to make fewer adjustments, compared to when when trying to brush or feed someone else. This does not only happen to children;
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The person is not feeding someone else, they are feeding themselves, so the child will find that easier to mimic. Another thing is that parents should try to correct the child’s grip and they should expose their children to different toys. Before this class, I had never given much thought to the importance of gendered toys. I always had thought that it did not matter what a child played with, but society often tends to negatively judge a parent and a child that might be going against the norm. Furthermore, it is important to see that toys are actually very important for the child’s development, so parents should try combining different toys, so that their children can be exposed to a …show more content…
At the beginning of this experiment, the experimenter asks the child to separate the cards into a white and black stack. After the child has done so, the experimenter asks the child to now separate the cards depending on the shape that is on the card: heart or a star. The child will tend to get less correctly when asked to stack the cards depending on their shape. This was very interesting because it goes to show that children tend to perseverate, which means that they tend to get stuck to thinking about the rules that they were initially exposed to. They do not chose to ignore the second set of rules; it is just too much for them to actually remember. What I learned from this presentation was that children who are bilingual tend to do better at perceptual tasks, and can therefore do sorting tasks about a year earlier than children that are monolingual. They also have better representational skills and better inhibition. In regards to the empirical article, the semantic properties between objects resulted in no significant difference. This presentation advised parents to try to teach their children a second language. When learning a second language, you are forced to move between different rules depending on the language, so these children will tend to practice this from a very young age, which can in the long-run can help delay Alzheimer’s disease for about 7 to 10
The person is not feeding someone else, they are feeding themselves, so the child will find that easier to mimic. Another thing is that parents should try to correct the child’s grip and they should expose their children to different toys. Before this class, I had never given much thought to the importance of gendered toys. I always had thought that it did not matter what a child played with, but society often tends to negatively judge a parent and a child that might be going against the norm. Furthermore, it is important to see that toys are actually very important for the child’s development, so parents should try combining different toys, so that their children can be exposed to a …show more content…
At the beginning of this experiment, the experimenter asks the child to separate the cards into a white and black stack. After the child has done so, the experimenter asks the child to now separate the cards depending on the shape that is on the card: heart or a star. The child will tend to get less correctly when asked to stack the cards depending on their shape. This was very interesting because it goes to show that children tend to perseverate, which means that they tend to get stuck to thinking about the rules that they were initially exposed to. They do not chose to ignore the second set of rules; it is just too much for them to actually remember. What I learned from this presentation was that children who are bilingual tend to do better at perceptual tasks, and can therefore do sorting tasks about a year earlier than children that are monolingual. They also have better representational skills and better inhibition. In regards to the empirical article, the semantic properties between objects resulted in no significant difference. This presentation advised parents to try to teach their children a second language. When learning a second language, you are forced to move between different rules depending on the language, so these children will tend to practice this from a very young age, which can in the long-run can help delay Alzheimer’s disease for about 7 to 10