The aspect that I related with from chapter I was the information regarding environmental factors that enhance novelty. This was intriguing to me because I reflected on the various changes that I have seen in my profession. In the past, I didn’t see young children playing games on their parent’s phone or watching videos. Nowadays, I observed that as children wait to go into the preschool they are watching a video or playing on a cellphone. As I read the list of what a typical home environment was in the past I realized that there are numerous variances. For instance, in the past parents did more talking and reading. The family unit was “more stable and family members ate together” (Sousa, 2011. p. 30). Also, children played together which allowed them to learn the social skills needed. In recent years, family units are not as stable and spend less time with one another. This means that children will have fewer opportunities
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The reason this was attention-grabbing was because it made sense. I smirk as I read the information presented by Sousa because I related to what he was saying. Especially the example she gave about her memorizing the poem because she didn’t want to make a fool of herself, even though she had no idea what the sense of it was (Sousa, 2011. P. 53). Sousa, (2011) stated, “studies have demonstrated that when new learning is readily comprehensible and can be connected to past experiences, there is substantially more cerebral activity followed by dramatically improved retention” (p. 53). I learned that meaning is more significant because children have a greater probability of retaining the information. I also think that this is true for adults when there is meaning behind what we are learning we want to retain it. For instance, if we read an interesting story to young children that have meaning there is a higher probability that they will remember
The reason this was attention-grabbing was because it made sense. I smirk as I read the information presented by Sousa because I related to what he was saying. Especially the example she gave about her memorizing the poem because she didn’t want to make a fool of herself, even though she had no idea what the sense of it was (Sousa, 2011. P. 53). Sousa, (2011) stated, “studies have demonstrated that when new learning is readily comprehensible and can be connected to past experiences, there is substantially more cerebral activity followed by dramatically improved retention” (p. 53). I learned that meaning is more significant because children have a greater probability of retaining the information. I also think that this is true for adults when there is meaning behind what we are learning we want to retain it. For instance, if we read an interesting story to young children that have meaning there is a higher probability that they will remember