Mar
24
You Are What You Played With
Everyone has a toy that they favoured when they were younger. It’ll be the one you took with you everywhere you went and had a hissy fit about whenever you couldn’t find it. Most people had a favoured category of toy also, such as planes, army men or dolls. These choices may have affected you more than you realise, as new research from the London Psychology Institute suggests we are strongly influenced in later life by our childhood toys. Below we examine some of the more interesting points the research highlighted.
1. Those children who were encouraged to play with educational toys did not become more intelligent, but were more analytical in their approach to problems in later life. The research showed that learning toys encouraged patience and taught people to break down a problem into its simplest parts in order to overcome tasks
2. Those children who played mostly with toys such as dolls or action men etc (toys that had human characteristics) displayed greater communication abilities and could interact better with those around them as adults. It is thought that by having a face that children could talk to whenever they wanted encouraged them to vocalise their thoughts and share their problems with their toys.
3. Probably the most controversial of the research’s findings was that the adults who accrued the greatest wealth and had most confidence, where those who had access to toys at all times when they were growing up. This means if children played with bath toys, took toys out and about with them and had access to toys at friends houses etc, they became more successful in later life.
There is of course the argument of unknown cause and effect which could undermine this research potentially. What is meant by this is do children become influenced by the toys they play with or do they pick certain toys because of the type of people they already are? Most experts tend to think that its a bit of both, which means that the study still provides some valid findings.
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