Development and strength Sensitive window: indicates a biological separation for the acquisition of the information - Humans have less window of sensitive window because we do learn over time - Some things are easy to understand at a certain age. Eg; language is easy to learn from very early and the sensitivity declines as we age specially after puberty) Study of phoneme discrimination - Compared from english speaking and hindi speaking parents - Task was whether infants could discriminate between two hindi phonemes ( that hindi speakers can easily distinguish but non-hindi speakers cant ) that are indistinguishable to adult non-hindi speakers - An infant will habituate to something if it's something new. If it sounds like a different sound then they can detect it, if it's similar sound then they will ignore - Results: The infants who are 6-8 months grasp language quicker than infants with 10-12 months - You can distinguish all phonic sounds when you are younger - Its difficult to learn a language after an accent after puberty Is there sensitive window for acculturation? - Honk kong immigrants to lower mainland - Weather age of immigration matters in relation to vancouver culture - Questions were asked like " do you understand humor of honk kong culture or van" - Result: people who are acculturate more like more things of the host culture ( vancouver) - Those who came at a younger age they adjusted and like more of Vancouver culture than those who came after 16. And older people found it more frustrating with liking the host culture. . Cultural persistence: the thing that is most persisted is discrimination Infants live in different cultures too - Sleeping arrangements vary across culture ( eg sleeping in your own room or sleeping with parents) - Study : asked indian and american adults of how family members could be arranged in the bedroom of a house - In one version they were told the house had 3 bedrooms and the family had a mother, father and 2 daughters ( age 14 & 15) and three sons ( age 15, 11 and 8)-> asked both the groups. Where should they sleep? - Results: possibility 1: american: mom and dad get their own room, daughter their own and sons their own. The reason they choose this was bec ( this was both indian and american thinking) so that there is no sex b/w the family - Indian also through protection of the small kids so they should sleep with them Parenting styles
· Tiger mother parenting style-> chinese parenting includes: - No-play dates/ sleepovers - No tv/ computers - Can't choose extracellular activity - No school plays - Top students in every class - No complains - Must practice piano/ violin Baumrind's tripartite parenting styles . There are 3 main kinds of parenting 1. Authoritarian parenting - High demands on children, strict rules, little open dialogue b/w parents and children, low level of warmth or responsiveness to childs protests. This might