Research on the Effects of Poverty in Childhood1) The American Association for the Advancement of Science:“Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain.”Poverty produces stress hormones that impair neural development, limiting language development and memory2) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:Berkeley study: EEG’s compared brains of children from poor and wealthy familiesPoor kids’ brains damaged by: “stressful and relatively impoverished environment associated with low socio- economic status: fewer books, less reading, fewer games, fewer visits to the museum.” STEREOTYPESStereotypes are overgeneralizations about the appearance, behavior, orother characteristics of all members of a groupSymbolic annihilation is the absence of representation, or underrepresentation, of some group of people in the media (often based on their race, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, etc.), understood in the social sciences to be a means of maintaining social