Animals, children and memory (I uploaded the correct picture now)


Can someone remind me.


Did Dr Glassman say research shows animals are dumb as a post.



Yet tool and symbol in child development says and I quote " modern psychology seek to receive a direct answer concerning the psychology of child development through experiments conducted on animals"

 Why animals then, yes no parent is going to give up their child for experimentation but can studies on animals truly provide knowledge on children that is credible if animals are given the labels of lacking in emotional and intellectual capacities. 

 I imagine the argument would be research/experiments are done on chimpanzees as their likeness to humans are very similar but are all animals behaviour not also the outcome of nature and nuture and this leads to their likeness to human. I wish some of my friends were as loyal as a dog!  

As I read tool and symbol this statement stood out to me" so the role of memory in the child’s operation manifests itself not simply in the widening of that fragment of the past which actually fuses in a united whole with the present, but in the new method of uniting the elements of past experience with present; this method is based on the inclusion of speech formulas of past situations and past activities into a single point of attention".

 We use our memories to judge the world around us and the saying a people without knowledge of their past are doomed to repeat it. I make reference to an example given in class if the baby/child goes towards the iron and parents stop him and he sees the iron in the future he will remember not to go there and then my MIND WAS BLOWN when I hear Dr Glassman say but if he sees another iron possibly of the same brand and colour somewhere else then he would still go towards it because of the different context let us say this iron was outside and he got no warning about iron's outside. I also thought that even though the iron inside may have burned him (if he did not get that parental warning) then I know the impact of PTSD (probably not that grand scale here) but to think that the child would be afraid of that iron inside because it is "evil" and see another iron outside and get burned again is just MIND BLOWING.

 Our memories are strings of experiences that keep us operational and as the song says Once bitten twice shy but am I judging my "great" ability to learn from my experiences and not repeat mistakes to not only maturity but my ability to relate experiences together which carry these two problems - I may never experience so many new things because I have groups a similar (yet not related) experience to another bad one and then another experience that didn't seem like the bad one (but was) caught me off guard, which happens rather often when you hear one say "I should have known better!".

 Knowledge of tool and symbols in child development and even the development stages of children continues to give me insight on understanding adults and humans in ways I didn't even think possible.

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