Psychology
Maria Castro 
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III. The Home Environment (Chapter 4)
A. Intellectual Stimulation in the Home
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from parents, siblings, and independent intellectual pursuits.
a. Creators typically held positions in family that accorded them an unusual amount of stimulation from adults.
2. 'Curriculum of the Home'
a. informed conversations about school and home.
b. encouragement of leisure reading
c. joint analysis of t.v. and peer activities.
a. Cox's study of geniuses:
one of the highest scores went to mental work given to special interests, hobbies, extracurricular activities.
B. Values upheld in the Home
1. Parents valued and pursued learning for its own sake,
2. valued success and ambition.
3. Role models in home, or among members of extended family.
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B. Emotional Climate in the Home
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2. Well-adjusted persons tend to come from healthy stable home background, affection from parents, satisfactory interactions with peers.
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Among 400 eminent people of the 20th century
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“Hatred of one parent or the other can make an Ivan the Terrible or a Hemingway;
the protective love, however, of two devoted parents can absolutely destroy an artist.”
Gore Vidal (American novelist, historian, and raconteur)
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C. Bereavement
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2. Albert (1980):
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4. Why?
a. Creative achievement, delinquency, and suicide may all be expressions of dissatisfaction with society (Eisenstadt, 1978).
b. Style of coping
c. Engenders need for power.
d. 3 possible reactions to anxiety caused by loss of parent.
-. turning away from others - seeking independence.
-. turning toward others - seeking admiration.
-. turning against people - seeking prestige.
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D. Isolation
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2. For many, loneliness was causes by outside forces (e.g., parents; illness; moving when young; lack of siblings).
For others, it may have sprung from own natural tendencies.
4. Einstein: I have never belonged to my country, my friends, or even my immediate family with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude-feelings which increase with the years."
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E. Parental Style of Control
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a. Russian novelist, Ivan Turgenev: "I have not a single happy memory of my childhood. I used to be birched almost daily for all sorts of trifles."
b. Composer Beethoven's father would drag him out of bed in the middle of the night and make him practice till morning, beating him if he flagged.
3. It is difficult to say whether creative achievers were treated worse than other children of their day.
3. But it is clear that abuse, neglect, etc. did not preclude creative achievement.
4. Perhaps it engendered independence and rebelliousness.
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