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The scientist in the crib : minds, brains, and how children learn / Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gopnik, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognition.
- Cognition in children.
- Learning, Psychology of.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 279 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow & Co., [1999]
- Summary:
- This book combines two worlds--children and science--in an entirely unique way that yields exciting discoveries about both. The authors show that by the time children are three, they've solved problems that stumped Socrates with an agility computers still can't match. The Scientist in the Crib explains just how, and how much, babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. In fact, The Scientist in the Crib argues that evolution designed us to both teach and learn. Nurture is our nature, and the drive to learn is our most important instinct.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Ancient Questions and a Young Science 1
- The Ancient Questions 4
- Baby 0.0 6
- The Other Socratic Method 10
- The Great Chain of Knowing 11
- Piaget and Vygotsky 14
- The New View: The Computational Baby 20
- Chapter 2 What Children Learn About People 23
- What Newborns Know 25
- The Really Eternal Triangle 32
- Peace and Conflict Studies 35
- Changing Your Point of View 40
- The Conversational Attic 42
- Learning About "About" 44
- The Three-Year-Old Opera: Love and Deception 47
- Knowing You Didn't Know: Education and Memory 51
- How Do They Do It? 52
- Mind-Blindness 53
- Becoming a Psychologist 55
- When Little Brother Is Watching 57
- Chapter 3 What Children Learn About Things 60
- What Newborns Know 64
- The Irresistible Allure of Stripes 64
- The Importance of Movement 65
- Seeing the World Through 3-D Glasses 67
- The Tree in the Quad and the Keys in the Washcloth 70
- Making Things Happen 73
- Kinds of Things 79
- How Do They Do It? 83
- World-Blindness 84
- The Explanatory Drive 85
- Grown-ups as Teachers 88
- Chapter 4 What Children Learn About Language 92
- The Sound Code 94
- Making Meanings 97
- The Grammar We Don't Learn in School 99
- What Newborns Know 102
- Taking Care of the Sounds: Becoming a Language-Specific Listener 106
- The Tower of Babble 110
- The First Words 112
- Putting It Together 117
- How Do They Do It? 120
- Word-Blindness: Dyslexia and Dysphasia 120
- Learning Sounds 122
- Learning How to Mean 125
- "Motherese" 128
- Chapter 5 What Scientists Have Learned About Children's Minds 133
- Evolution's Programs 134
- The Star Trek Archaeologists 139
- Foundations 143
- Learning 147
- The Developmental View: Sailing in Ulysses' Boat 149
- Big Babies 153
- The Scientist as Child: The Theory Theory 155
- Explanation as Orgasm 162
- Other People 164
- Nurture as Nature 165
- The Klingons and the Vulcans 170
- Sailing Together 172
- Chapter 6 What Scientists Have Learned About Children's Brains 174
- The Adult Brain 175
- How Brains Get Built 180
- Wiring the Brain: Talk to Me 183
- Synaptic Pruning: When a Loss Is a Gain 186
- Are There Critical Periods? 189
- The Social Brain 194
- The Brain in the Boat 195
- Chapter 7 Trailing Clouds of Glory 198
- What Is to Be Done? 198
- The Clouds 206.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0688159885
- OCLC:
- 41039870
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