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