文档介绍:2022年翻译资格考试一级笔译实务试题及答案
2022年翻译资格考试一级笔译实务试题及答案Orphanages Stunt Mental Growth 1
By BENEDICT CAREY
Psychol
2022年翻译资格考试一级笔译实务试题及答案
2022年翻译资格考试一级笔译实务试题及答案Orphanages Stunt Mental Growth 1
By BENEDICT CAREY
Psychologists have long believed that growing up in an institution like an orphanage stunts children's mental development but have never had direct evidence to back it up. Now they do, from an extraordinary years-long experiment in Romania that compared the effects of foster care with those of institutional child-rearing.
The study found that toddlers placed in foster families developed significantly higher I. Q.'s by age 4, on average, than peers who spent those years in an orphanage. The difference was large - eight points 2- and the study found that the earlier children joined a foster family, the better they did. Children who moved from institutional care to families after age 2 made few gains on average, though the experience varied from child to child. 3 Both groups, however, had significantly lower I. Q.'s than a comparison group of children raised by their biological families.
Some developmental psychologists had sharply criticized the study and its sponsor for researching a question whose answer