LING 4P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gopnik, 18 Months, Broccoli
11 Feb 2016
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Infants and kids possess a set of intuiive theories (psychological, biological, physical) No domain-general ability (which is what piaget thinks) Construcive process: build upon prior knowledge; intuiions modiied through experience (similar to. It is not that children are litle scienists but that scienists are big children. Scieniic progress is possible because scienists employ cogniive processes that are irst seen in very young children. Kid sees something and thinks it might taste good; so they do the experiment by tasing it, then evaluate results: ew that"s gross, then show results to others by ofering it to them to eat. Innate? (born with sets of rules for operaing on paricular representaions; altered by experience) Born with certain biases that help you develop things. Preference for face-like simuli (helps them develop theories about people) Infants and children are able to make sense especially well in core domains. Can"t stop kids from understanding objects and that they don"t just disappear.
