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Brain development

Lavie notes that it is during the first months of life that the longest duration of REM sleep occurs and that this coincides with the time when sleep becomes consolidated into a single and continuous sleep period.

Learning by Playing and by Experience

Playing is a way of learning how to behave, of learning about social co-operation and conflict, about family relations and about bringing up a family.

Social responsibility, the caring, giving and sharing with others, the taking on of responsibility for others, including conflict management, can be and is being taught.

From infant through child and adolescent to being an adult, we go through a long period in which we learn through playing and by experience, and also absorb information from external memory, from the mass of information now available to us from sources external to ourselves.

And learning by experience and by gaining knowledge continues while we are alive. Each new experience adds to our knowledge and plays a part in shaping our view of the community and society in which we live, of the world at large, and helps to determine what we do and how we do it, helps to determine our behaviour.

Change from Eidetic to Linear Memory

We already saw that many, if not all, young children apparently do normally see and remember eidetically <1>, but that this capacity is lost to most as they grow up.

Rose considers that at birth all types of input are likely to be seen as about equally relevant, that all input is registered and ordered "so as to enable each individual to build up his or her own criteria of significance". Eidetic memory gives equal importance to all inputs so that all inputs are analysed, are processed and stored.

It seems that children remember everything. But at some time before puberty most of us cease to remember eidetically, `there is for most of us a transition in how we perceive and remember the world ... as we consciously or unconsciously learn to select salient information that we need to commit to memory from the environment around us."

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