Socioeconomic status

EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Abstract This paper explores the effects that poverty has on cognitive and brain development in childhood. Living in poverty places children at very high risk for problems across a variety of domains, including schooling, behavioral regulations, and health. Hanson, J.L., Hair, N., Sheen, D.G., Shi, F., Gilmore, J.H., Wolfe, B.L., Pollak, S.D. (2013). Environmental stressor of poverty results in many adverse effects on children, none of which are good.…

The game, “The Last Straw”, displayed the different experiences each individual went through based on their gender, socioeconomic status (SES), race, and ethnicity. Group 1 created a character named Zaid. He was male, had a socioeconomic status of 3 (middle class), he was a person of color and his ethnicity was Pakistani. As Zaid grew up, he lived in a stable environment during his childhood years. However, in his adolescence years, he recognized that he was gay, unlike the other characters…

today is disproportionality. Disproportionality was first reported in 1968 by an educational researcher named Lloyd Dunn. Dunn observed that 60 to 80 percent of students who were misidentified for special education services were students from low-status backgrounds including African Americans and students from non-middle class environments (Vallas, 2009). Still, years later, the problem continues to exist. Minorities continue to be overrepresented in special education. Culturally and…

needs a priority, but they vastly differ in their approaches to satisfy their child’s need to be loved. This is a concept explored throughout Toni Morrison’s novel Sula. Since the novel follows the lives of two young girls growing up with a low socioeconomic status, it influences the way their mothers show love. A prolonged embrace, kiss goodnight, and caress of a cheek still plump with baby fat are not part of daily life for these girls, but does that mean that they are not loved? The lack of…

child’s life were analyzed. The researchers’ objective was to analyze the contribution that an African American father with a low socioeconomic status make to their family and the impact that this contribution, in turn, has on a preschool children’s competence, behavior, and home environment. According to Black et al, paternal engagement with a child can be determined by the status of his marriage. Fathers who are satisfied with their marital life have a tendency to be more involved in the…

Imagine growing up in a household where no one ever muttered a word. No one talked during breakfast, getting ready for school, after school, at dinner, or even before bed. There were no books around to read or a television set around blaring cartoons or educational shows. How would one’s vocabulary develop or increase if that were the case? Now imagine a household where talking amongst family members was always occurring. Parents were waking up asking their children “How did they sleep last…

Head Start program pre-kindergarten classroom. This was quite an eye-opening, and valuable learning experience because of the level of diversity that goes on in one of these classrooms. Head Start is a federally funded program that aids low socioeconomic status families in giving their children a safe, learning environment up to two years before they go into the public school setting. Capital Area Head Start (1998) mission statement is “to provide a comprehensive child development program,…

Although socioeconomic status and pre-K involvement both clearly correlate to kindergarten readiness in urban areas and particularly within Memphis, there are other, larger urban processes at work within the setting of urban Memphis. One of these processes is urban psychology. Urban psychology relates the interactions of the people to their surroundings and how these interactions shape the children. These surroundings for a pre-kindergarten child can include the home environment, which has…

that medication management alone or in conjunction with behavioral intervention relieves ADHD symptoms more effectively than behavioral or community based treatments alone. Socioeconomic status has also been shown to moderate treatment response. However, research has had conflicting evidence regarding how socioeconomic status effects the efficacy of pharmacological treatment; one study showed no influence of SES on drug response whereas another study showed a positive correlation between…

that may sway a judge’s ruling on a sentence one way or another. Studies find, however, that people of color and of low socioeconomic status were more likely to receive harsher sentences than white people or people of high socioeconomic status (Thornbery 1973). This illustrates a trend that surely could cultivate feelings of injustice. The cause of these racial and socioeconomic biases could be due to the engrained practices and trends followed through the years, as exemplified in Thornberry’s…