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MATERNAL REJECTION AND CONSERVATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SUB‐OPTIMAL COGNITION
Author(s) -
Hamilton Ver
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1972.tb01141.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , socialization , developmental psychology , arousal , cognitive psychology , social psychology , neuroscience
SUMMARY Attempts were made to derive a plausible relationship between socialization experiences and conservation. It was postulated that children of accepting and rejecting mothers would differ from an early age in patterns of arousal and activation levels, in experiences of stress, and in their willingness to obtain social feedback in problem solving. Therefore, it was proposed, children exposed to rejection might find it more difficult to apply logical strategies in information processing, and to filter out irrelevant from relevant stimuli in conservation tests. As predicted, conservation assessed by new pictorial tests of increasing difficulty was shown to be less well developed in children of rejecting mothers.