PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Teddy Bear, Irony, Pom-Pom
20 Dec 2012
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If you just ask preschoolers if a sea otter grows, they will say yes (even if they"re not familiar with that animal) If you ask them if teddy bears or kettles grow, they will say no . They know animates and inanimates have different internal parts (due to the fact that inanimates are not self-propelled, unlike animate things) From preschoolers, children already distinguish between animates and inanimates. It organizes the way they learn about things in the world (structures later learning) Physical properties of animals are inherited from their parents. When asked about a pink phone, they don"t talk about inheritance. Child"s mind is structured to know/think that inanimate things can"t heal (it"s hard for them to understand) Plants are hard for children to understand (whether they are animate or inanimate) b/c they don"t move on their own, but they grow. Early knowledge is there, but is very thin and can be false (more of an assumption that knowledge)
