General Education Science of Living Systems 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Candy Cane, Prenatal Development, Ontogeny
18 Mar 2016
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Lecture 13: cognitive development, prenatal development, infancy and childhood. Prenatal development: you are already 9 months old when you are born, you became human in the womb. Fetus is influenced by the chemicals in which it is bathed: alcohol, cigarettes, drugs. Pregnant woman reads either cat in the hat and goodnight moon: babies later suck at the rate that allows them to hear the book that was read to them, babies prefer to hear the language of their parents. I"m going to build a brain for that world. Immanuel kant: we come into the world prewired for certain concepts, kant was pretty right about this, space and time, causality, category, number. Pulls mostly red balls and once in a while a white ball. 3-year-old says drawer, 5-year-old says box: video of evil monkey that takes the sticker that the child wants, younger child unable to deceive the monkey, older child able to deceive the monkey.
