The World: Child Development

The infant, the toddler, the child, the adolescent, and the adult.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Memory development

There is a difference between the information the general public gets and what college students and professors have access to. Magazines about parenting and children give people information about what to do and watch for as children develop, in a very limited way. I am searching for magazines that have any information about any type of memory development and what is present is that these articles just try to calm parents and/or get them to interact more with their children. It does not go in to detail about why and how these cognitive abilities are happening because that can go into way too much detail. I just wish that more scientific information was available and at a more appropriate level so that all parents can learn about how a human being develops. The magazines are a great step to keep parents informed.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Sidenote

I just wanted to say that I don't like when people talk only about football around me and they know I will not participate in the conversation because I don't know anything about football. I hope that people know what there friends want to discuss and will refrain from conversations that people will not take part in.

It's been a while

I hope I haven't been worrying my readers since I haven't updated for almost a month. I have just been on vacation and working on stuff for school so I haven't had much information to put into a post. I am currently learning about memory development, which I will write a paper about in a few weeks. There are a few theories out about it, but there is no one specific one and of course researchers cannot agree which one is best.
Not much has happened lately. I am working on a group project to teach elementary school math and motivation at the same time. I am focusing on attribution theory and problem solving and am trying to not incorporate information processing into it too much. We will see what happens. The presentation is in 2 weeks. Well its getting late so I will try to update in a few days.