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Pollitt (1995)

For years psychologists have argued that poverty affects a child’s cognitive development. The problem with this argument, of course, is that many aspects of poverty may be the “cause” of cognitive impairment. One of the variables that has been studied by psychologists is malnutrition. The following study may be used to discuss the role of "socioeconomic factors" on cognitive and/or social development. Procedure and...


Tags: development, environment, poverty, cognitive, ethics, key study

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