Ap psych ch 9 Parents and Peers
howard gardner
-concludes parents and peers are complementary
credit to parents?
-freuden principles would blame things like schizophrenia and asthma on "bad mothering"
Nature and Nurture
-nurture begins at conception then continues outside the womb -both nature and nurture sculpt our synapses (childhood learning) -unused neural pathways weaken and degenerate -after maturation, theres enough neural connections so our experiences trigger a pruning process -optimum brain development: must have normal stimulation during the early yrs for this to happen
selection affect
-ppl pick peers with similar attitudes and interests
Mark Rosenzweig and David Krech
-said how early experiences leave their "marks" in the brain -raised some young rats in solitary confinement and others in a communal playground -those who died with the most toys had won -the rats living in the enriched environment (simulated a natural environment) usually developed a heavier and thicker brain cortex than those in an improvished enviorment
Peter Neubauer and Alexander Neubauer
-say how, with hindsight, we may inappropriately credit or blame our parents -identical twin men, seperated at birth and with dif mom's -one twin was neat bc his mom was neat -the other was neat bc the mom was dirty
parents are important for
-when it comes to education, discipline, responsibility, orderliness, charitableness, and ways of interacting with authority figures. -helpful with future -by howard gardner
peers important for
learning cooperation, for finding the road to popularity, for inventing styles of interaction among people of the same age. -seen as more interesting -by harris