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TASK 1 Review a Journal Article

By Farah Farzana Binti Mohammad Din (930331-04-5280)

I had choose a journal entitled Introduction to the Special Section on The Effects of

Early Experience on Development written by Nathan A. Fox and Michael Rutter.

This journal is basically the studies about how early experience can effect on

children development. This topic had been divided into seven sections which are the

important advances in neuroscience and molecular genetics (Fox, Levitt, & Nelson,

2010; Meaney, 2010) and fetal development and early experience. Thirdly is on

perinatal experiences containing low birth and long sequences on health and also

development, while the fourth section is on the effects of several psychosocial

deprivation, neglect and abuse. Next, are a discussion on early experience and

stress reactivity and the sixth part presents three article that examining basic

mechanism linking early experiences? Lastly, is on an observation by Jack Shonkoff

about the section with an eye toward thinking about the policy implications of the

science.

I choose this article because, in my opinion, early experience plays important

roles towards children development. If anything interferes in the development of the

child, it can affect the childs ab ility, learn and act in a number of ways. From this

article, the important theoretical that can be identified is the importance of early

experience and the identification of sensitive or critical periods have a long history

within developmental research. Based on psych biologists such as Seymour Levine

(Levine, 1957) and Victor Denenberg (Denenberg, 1964), that claimed that early

experience can effects on early handling and stress reactivity of the child. This can

be supported by the studied that had been stated in two articles (Price, Grosser,

Plomin, & Jaffee, 2010; DOnofrio et al., 2010) which provide readers about the

consequences or the effects of fetal exposure to maternal smoking. DOnofrio et al.

(2010). He observes the long-term consequences on academic achievement focus

on children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, and he concludes that

prenatal environmentally can give large effects of a shared genetic liability.

From the article, as a teacher-to-be I learnt that, in the future I must adapt

myself with the pupils besides varying my teaching techniques. Each pupil has their

own stages of development as an outcome of biological processes, cognitive and

socio-emotional (Santrock, 2008). Therefore, I need to do various activities during

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my teaching process since each of my pupil, has their own learning style, as a result,

by doing that, I can motivate them to participate in the activities. From this, I can

produce more conducive and interesting classroom environment. In addition, during

the teaching and learning process, I should exposed my students with the

surroundings as catalysts to enhance their ability to think, give opinion, understand

and also memorise events. As an example, I can do a visit to zoo or parks with them

so that my pupils will have a wide range of experiences as well increasing their

vocabulary. This task has helped me in understand better about children

development. As an example, mother plays important roles in the child development

since the prenatal stage; she needs to take a good care of her foetus like avoiding

herself from taking any medications or smoking which can affects towards my child

development especially on the cognitive development. Not only that, I also increase

my knowledge in the topic of nature versus nurture. In my opinion, both factors play

important roles in children developments. As we know, nature is biological

characteristic which controls the development of the human being and it gives

unique individualities while as what had been suggest by Broffenbrenner Ecology

Theory (1977, 1989) that the child development is a product of his interaction with

the environment on the child and also how the child response and reacts to the

environment.

Through this task also, I acquire new skills in analyse an article from a journal

from a reliable source. Before this, I only used book as a reference when doing tasks

that had been given to me because compared to books, I rarely found journal in our

library. Besides, by doing this task, I also need to think critically because I need to

relate the article that I found with the topics that I learnt in class such as theorists

and stages of children development. Furthermore, I also learnt how to do article

review. I think, this is a new knowledge for me because I did not use to writing an

article review. To write a review, as the first step, I need to understand the main

points and arguments of the article which is essential for an accurate summation. In

a review, there are a few elements that need to be considered such as logical

evaluation of the article's main theme, supporting arguments and implications for

further. Although this may be an unfamiliar exercise, but throughout the process of

completing this task, I realize that it is not as complex a task as writing an essay

which requiring a lot of library research.

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As a conclusion, as a brief assessment of the article, the writers have been

clearly lays out the article using the standard format of writing an article of journal.

Both of the writers, had clearly wrote the tittle which is Introduction to the Special

Section on The Effects of Early Experience on Developmentthat strongly describes

the contents of the paper. As for the abstract, the writers clearly express the basic

design of the study, briefly describe the basic methodology that involves

neuroscience, genetics, and improved developmental and statistical methods for

studying the effects of early experience which includes several studies and theories

done by a number of psych biologists as well as provides evidences from articles.

This journal is also had been organised according to sequence of the studies that

had been made by psych biologists which makes me easy to comprehend on the

topic that the writers tried to display through his writing.

Nathan A. F. & Michael R. (2010). Introduction to the Special Section on the Effectsof Early Experience on Development. Retrieved fromhttp://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty/Fox/publications/115.pdf

Haliza Hamzah, Joy N.Samuel & Rafidah Kastawi (2008). Child Development forProgram Perguruan Pendidikan Rendah Pengajian Empat Tahun. Selangor :UG Press Sdn. Bhd.

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