Do Babies Learn Vocabulary From Baby Media? Study Says No
I chose this one, because I love children and have found that all parents truly do want their kids to be smart and will go to great lengths to help them become successful. Therefore, I found this study to be very fascinating. The study was done to see if these videos designed for infants and young children actually helped them become smarter. Each year parents apparently spend millions of dollars for these DVDs, to help teach their kids and help them advance in their studies. I am a nanny and when the girls were very young they had videos like Baby Einstein and had many apps on their moms iPad that had videos for the girls to watch to help them learn. I could not wait to see how this
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However, Judy had to divide the children into categories to be able to see if the videos had any affect on the children. Therefore, the first category watched best selling learning DVDs many times every week. Some of the children in this group would watch these DVDs with their parents and the other half of the children would watch these DVDs alone. In addition, half of the parents who watched the videos with their kids made interactions during the video that the experimenter gave the parents to make sure the parents were saying and doing the correct things during the video. This group had to keep daily logs to make sure they were doing it properly. The half of the parents that watched the videos with their child was to interact with their child however they felt natural and necessary. However, all of the children watching the videos, had the same amount of viewing time. The other category of children had no exposure to these learning DVDs. However, the parents were asked to sit down with their child and try and teach their child the words from the DVDs everyday. This would be actual interaction with the parent and child, trying to learn these words. These parents were given a list of the 25 words that were listed on the videos and had to teach their