Ray, C. Claiborne. "Recalling Early Childhood Memories, or Not." The New York Times. The New York
Times, 27 Mar. 2017. Web. 28 Mar. 2017. <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/early-childhood-memories.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront>.
I read the article “Recalling Early Childhood Memories, or Not” which talked about the age at which individuals are able to remember memories from. It is common that most people don’t have memories from before they were about 4. Freud called this childhood amnesia. A widely accepted study shows that the formation of memories is linked to the age of language acquisition. Recently, studies have been done that show that the timelines kids believe they have of their life has some discrepancies.
This article affects society because this is something that comes up often in daily life. Most people can remember something from early childhood, but usually they remember what their parents told them had happened, they don’t truly have a memory of the event. I just think that this article is interesting and something that individuals can relate to.
I think the author did a good job connecting with the audience and making it easy to read. On the other hand, I think that the author could have given more details and made the article longer because I was interested in the topic, yet the article ended very quickly.
I read Sophia’s review of the article"Recalling Early Childhood Memories or Not ." I enjoyed reading her article for three reasons. The first reason is that she provided a very good summary of the article. The second reason is that she referenced studies done on her topic, which added credibility to her review. Finally, I enjoyed how she kept her review concise and did not include any useless information.
ReplyDeleteAlthough her review was well written, she could have improved two aspects of her review. The first was that she could have improved on her grammar, as this would have made the review much easier to read. In addition, she should have elaborated on the process on childhood amnesia and why it occurs.
After reading this article, it expanded my knowledge on why we don't have memories of our infant years, a topic that I had known very little about.
I read Sophia's review of the article, "Recalling Early Childhood Memories, or Not." There were many aspects of her review that were well done. Firstly, her summary was easy to follow and concise. Second, she did a good job connecting the topic to everyday life. The third aspect of her review that was well done was talking about Freud and other studies done. This made her review more sophisticated.
ReplyDeleteAlthough her review was good, there were some aspects that could have been improved. The first thing is she could have made her review a little longer. Second, she could have included quotes from the author.
Overall, Sophia's review was very well done. I chose her review because this topic is very interesting and I knew most people don't have memories before the age of 4 but i didn't know why.
Ray, C. Claiborne. "Recalling Early Childhood Memories, or Not." The New York Times. The New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017. Web. 28 Mar. 2017.
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I read Sophia's review of the article “Recalling Early CHildhood Memories, or Not” by Ray Claiborne. I think that Sophia did a good job reviewing the article, I really enjoyed how she gave a detailed summary of the article. She also was able to reference studies that were written about this topic.
Although she did a good job writing her review there were a few things I think she could improve. First I think she could have gone into more detail about the childhood amnesia and why it happens in people. Second I think that she could have made the review a little bit longer and included some quotes from the article.
Overall, Sophia's review was very well done. I chose her review because I think this topic is interesting and I didn’t know much about it. After reading I had a better knowledge on why we can’t remember things from when we were babies.
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RAY, C. CLAIBORNE. "Recalling Early Childhood Memories, or Not." The New York Times. The New
York Times, 27 Mar. 2017. Web. 21 Sept. 2017.
Sophia, I thought you had written a very informative review based on the short but intriguing article, "Recalling Early Childhood Memories, or Not." Reading a unique article written in the New York Times, I began reading with enthusiasm, not expecting to read something I was always curious about which is my memory. Inside her review, Sophia relates evidence which backs statistics which were made by a group of children. In the beginning, she developed a well constructed summary of what the article is about. I liked how she added some data that was given in the article to summarize what Victor Henri, pioneering French researcher and his wife, Catherine had proposed. She nicely transitioned her own thoughts of why this topic is important to her own life. She explains “most people can remember something room early childhood, but usually they remember what their parents told them had happened.” In detail, she explained why it is interesting and important to why this occurs once children get older. Lastly, in paragraph three, she did a great job emphasizing the connection of not knowing when your thoughts could be erased. When she states, “I think the author did a good job connecting with the audience and making it easy to read” I agree with her thoughts and enjoyed reading her summary since it was concise and the rest of her paragraphs had information relevant to our own thoughts.
Although Sophia’s review based on an article that sparked lots of curiosity to me was engaging, I noticed that one of Sophia’s flaws was picking the article itself. I thought the article was too short, so she didn’t have much to discuss. Although she did present evidence regarding the study done about children and how well their memory is, she didn’t address the main argument. She was very vague in her writing and I didn’t feel a high schooler wrote it. She vaguely states, “I just think that this article is interesting and something that individuals can relate to.” She can definitely expand upon why this information is relevant to our daily lives and I would’ve like to of heard maybe a person connection. In the original article, there were many theories presented which discuss what the results conclude about the loss of recall as children get older, which I believe Sophia didn’t address that well. The only evidence that she addressed was in the first paragraph of the article where she wrote, “studies have been done that show that the timelines kids believe they have of their life has some discrepancies.” To correct her weakness, I believe she should make an outline of the argument of how memories are becoming more fond as children get older and support it by the evidence that is clearly stated in the article for example that “most participants earliest memories came from when they were 2 to 4 years old; the average was age 3.”
After reading Sophia’s article, I can summarize that she did a good job the way she presented the information in a simple manner for readers to understand. I learned many fascinating facts about the link between memories and the age of language acquisition. This makes me question my memories as a child and until this day, recollecting upon memories that I had forgotten occurred. I definitely didn’t know much about the loss of events in your memory and how it can occur starting at such a young age, which was why I primarily chose this article. I thought it was a unique article which I wouldn't expect to see in the science section of the New York Times and it has not only changed my perspective on life but also the way I cherish my memories now still as a kid.