Research Book 2/5

  Moving along with my research book The Scientist in The Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About The Mind  for this week’s summary I read mostly about what children learn about objects and people. It appears that the very first things that children talk about are desires, perceptions and emotions what they and others, want, see and feel. Children are very influenced by other people’s minds and behavior, it is astounding just how much babies and children can pick up from just observing others. Just as they learn about deception at about the age of three or four because that’s approximately when they begin to understand about beliefs and how they can be different from person to person. Although it seems that a newborn can be excited to see their mother’s face or hear a familiar voice, they are ecstatic about stripes and edges!. I found this quite interesting because it demonstrates just how simple everyday things, can be complex and eye catching to newborns, so much so, that designs for baby toys are taken right from Developmental Psychology journals. By the time these newborns are 3 months they learn that what they do can have an affect/ influence on the world around them, a simple understanding of cause and effect. All of the research done in this book goes to show how much children learn from the people around them, but it also makes it clear that a big deal of it is innate and we are only here to push them in the right direction. For next weeks blog, I will finally be reading up on “What Children Learn about Language” tune in next week!.