PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dieting, Thematic Relation, Influence Of Mass Media
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The older the baby is, the better he is at that, the longer his memory can last. None of us can remember the early years of our lives. Our earliest memories are 3 or 4 years old. Young children also tend to do a lot of confabulation. Understanding the laws of nature: physics, mathematics. They have some intuitive nature regarding the laws of nature and gravity. An infant is shown a possible event: a box is released on top of another box. An infant is shown an impossible event: a box is released in mid- air but does not fall. Infant spends much more time looking at the impossible event. Piaget did something with marbles. So judith rich harris basically said that parents are nothing. It"s all about the peers. It is associated with lots of negative outcomes academic problems, social problems. Not all children cope poorly: older children handle it better, socially mature children.