In my experience, children will not read if television is available.
The same can be said for video games.
An even a bigger loss, is that when TV and video games are available, children will not read for themselves. They will not get that advanced practice in imagery that they need to be good readers later in life.
Then when they try to read books, the words fail to conjure up any pictures in their mind that they can use. Hence, reading is unrewarding, difficult and of little practical value.
To summarize, once the bonds have been abstracted through the figure-ground processes and have been manipulated through imagery, it remains to for objects to be associated in some systematic fashion. This is the Generalization process which we will be looking at next.
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