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Child Development
Evaluating Child Development Issues
I have chosen the article from the New York Times. Dr. Perri Klass wrote this article and the topic of this article is 'The Makings of Our Earliest Memories'. The author's main subject is memory and for this reason, she is targeting parents and adults in this article by making them aware about the memory system of childhood and the abilities of children to retrieve their memories.
The author is trying to determine that do infants have the ability to remember past events and if they do then since when this ability develops. The author tells us how our memory develops during different stages of our life. Small children do have memories but with the passage of time, these memories seem to fade away (Klass). She says that babies seem to remember doctors dress color and that is why when the doctors approach them they start crying due to the bad experience they had with the doctor earlier. This clearly shows that even babies have memory, which they are able to recall on any particular situation. As the babies grow up, they fail to recall these memories. According to the author, this happens because young babies go through extensive learning phase due to which they are not able to consolidate their thoughts and as a result, they fail to retrieve memories. Professor Charles Nelson indicated another reason for the failure to recall memory. According to him in order to recall memory...
The author goes on further and emphasize that parents should discuss memories with their children so they can figure out how memory works. In addition to this, she also says that other factors such as development of language, consciousness, personality and personal narrative plays an important part in the development of memory (Klass).
The article emphasize on both heredity as well as environment. Both things contribute a great deal in the memory development of young children. The neurons, which are responsible for the development of memory, are the same in children and adults, which indicates heredity. The author also says that formation of memory occurs in every young child but most of these children are not able to retrieve these memories when they grow up (Klass). Apart from this the author also emphasize on the environment in which the child is brought up and she says that parents should talk to their young children about their childhood memories so they may understand that how this system works and it may also help them to recall their child hood memories when they become grown ups.
This article includes scientific findings and expert opinion from various people mainly including professors and doctors.…
Works Cited
Klass, Dr. Perri. "The Makings of Our Earliest Memories." 11-06 2012. The New York Times. 17-06 2012 <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/the-makings-of-our-earliest-memories/>.
Papalia, Diane, Ruth Duskin Feldman and Ruth Feldman. A Child's World: Infancy Through Adolescence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.
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