ID: Cognitive Development in Infancy
1) Summary of the article
The article entitled, The effects of infant media usage: what do we know and what should we learn? http://echd430-f13-love.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/Pediatrics+article.pdf/447420452/Pediatrics%20article.pdf. This article is about Infants viewing Television, and what things we can learn about it and know its effects. According to the article 90% of kids watch Television averagely before they age of two years old. This article is supposed to inform us the effects on a child’s development including cognition and language. The article starts off by telling us that Television is starting to play a role in families lives over the years since it was invented which was in 1950. In the …show more content…
They did a study with one thousand kids that are under the age of two years’ old did not have any benefits of viewing Television and the baby’s that were seven to sixteen months old had very poor language skills than the others. The article then goes on to tell us the cognitive effects of Television of infants during development. Language for infants can be effected by watching Television but in general Television may effect cognitive development more greatly. Depending on the program the children watch can even affect children in a good way. For Example, in older children such as 3 to 5 years old they show that is better studied is a show called sesame street which has had some benefits that are proven for them for cognitive and language development. There is some concern that Television might be one of the reasons why children develop ADHD. Television for children that have fast, and intense scenes for children. For younger children with brains that are developing that watch these types of scenes frequently can train their brains to get used to it and when they don’t watch Television and when they are interacting with reality they will …show more content…
Russel usually keeps his self-busy by watching the same DVD over and over again and for Russel he does not lose interest in it. Research from the American Academy of Pediatrics made a policy that kids that watch TV under the age of 2 years old was due to the documented negative effects that watching TV can have on physical health, attention span, and language delays. From this article it said that children that watched Television that were under the age of two years old had no benefits from watching Television for the cognitive and language
1) Summary of the article
The article entitled, The effects of infant media usage: what do we know and what should we learn? http://echd430-f13-love.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/Pediatrics+article.pdf/447420452/Pediatrics%20article.pdf. This article is about Infants viewing Television, and what things we can learn about it and know its effects. According to the article 90% of kids watch Television averagely before they age of two years old. This article is supposed to inform us the effects on a child’s development including cognition and language. The article starts off by telling us that Television is starting to play a role in families lives over the years since it was invented which was in 1950. In the …show more content…
They did a study with one thousand kids that are under the age of two years’ old did not have any benefits of viewing Television and the baby’s that were seven to sixteen months old had very poor language skills than the others. The article then goes on to tell us the cognitive effects of Television of infants during development. Language for infants can be effected by watching Television but in general Television may effect cognitive development more greatly. Depending on the program the children watch can even affect children in a good way. For Example, in older children such as 3 to 5 years old they show that is better studied is a show called sesame street which has had some benefits that are proven for them for cognitive and language development. There is some concern that Television might be one of the reasons why children develop ADHD. Television for children that have fast, and intense scenes for children. For younger children with brains that are developing that watch these types of scenes frequently can train their brains to get used to it and when they don’t watch Television and when they are interacting with reality they will …show more content…
Russel usually keeps his self-busy by watching the same DVD over and over again and for Russel he does not lose interest in it. Research from the American Academy of Pediatrics made a policy that kids that watch TV under the age of 2 years old was due to the documented negative effects that watching TV can have on physical health, attention span, and language delays. From this article it said that children that watched Television that were under the age of two years old had no benefits from watching Television for the cognitive and language