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Some stories of the life of John 　　Little John was born only six months ago， as his optic nerve has not yet fully developed， he can not see clearly the surrounding environment. But he has been able to district red， green， and blue three colors （Teller， Morse， Borton， Regal， 1974）. When a toy is vibrant red which means the only one long wavelength is present （Grison， p165）， he pays more attention and get more excited by the toy. Fortunately， his auditory sensory ability is more fully developed at birth than his visual ability. In fact， he has been able to hear outside sounds in the womb（c Fifer， 1980）.He likes very much his mothers voice which is usually features in low amplitude and low frequency. When his mother is talking， because of auditory localization， he always turns his head and searches his mother. 　　Now he was 3 years old， and he went to the kindergarten. In the kindergarten， a few rabbits were raised. He likes the lovely white fluffy animal very much. Because now he has a limited schema about animals， he builds a wrong category. He thinks that all white four-leg animals are a rabbit. One day， his father and mother take home a white cat. He happily says： lovely rabbit！. His mom and dad smiled and told him that ：this was a cat，my boy. You can see that a cat has a long tail， pointed ears and a cat meows.He now built a new concept in his memory. One day this little cat knocked over a cup made of glass. His parents were quite frustrated and the cat was punished by one-day closure in the cave. He felt sorry for the cat. But he also learned through vicarious conditioning. From then on， he was quite careful when he held a glass cup. 　　John was 6 years old now， the whole family moved to another city. He was reluctant to leave his friends in the kindergarten. He said to his friends that he would remember them forever. However when he made his new friends in the primary school， due to the retroactive interference 　　Which means his could no longer access to