Mindful of symbols
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Children learn symbolic thinking over several years and during this process, they make many fascinating errors, including mistaking photographed objects for the real thing and treating small toys as if they are much larger. Fundamentally, grasping the meaning of a symbol entails dual representation and only when children can see an object both as itself and as depicting something else can they start to think symbolically.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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Malnutrition, poverty and intellectual development
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Malnutrition can hurt mental performance in children, but some of the effects may be reversible if the children receive adequate nutrition in time. Most undernourished children have problems that are worsened by poverty, lack of medical care and poor schools.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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Sick of poverty
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People with low socioeconomic status (SES) have a higher disease risk and shorter life span than people from wealthier strata of society. New studies have shown that psychosocial stresses associated with poverty might increase the risk of many illnesses.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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