The Scientist in the Crib,9780688159887

The Scientist in the Crib

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ISBN13: 9780688159887
ISBN10: 0688159885
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-07
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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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.

The new science of children also reveals insights about our adult capacities, helping to solve some ancient questions: How do we know there really is a world out there? How do we know that other people have minds like ours? It turns out that we find solutions to these problems when we are very small. But these astonishing capabilities don't disappear in later life, as the authors show in their engaging discussion of humans' potential for learning. In fact, they argue

Author Biography

Alison Gopnik, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading cognitive scientist Andrew N. Meltzoff, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D. is a professor of speech and hearing at the University of Washington

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Ancient Questions and a Young Science
1(22)
The Ancient Questions
4(2)
Baby 0.0
6(4)
The Other Socratic Method
10(1)
The Great Chain of Knowing
11(3)
Piaget and Vygotsky
14(6)
The New View: The Computational Baby
20(3)
What Children Learn About People
23(37)
What Newborns Know
25(7)
The Really Eternal Triangle
32(3)
Peace and Conflict Studies
35(5)
Changing Your Point of View
40(2)
The Conversational Attic
42(2)
Learning About ``About''
44(3)
The Three-Year-Old Opera: Love and Deception
47(4)
Knowing You Didn't Know: Education and Memory
51(1)
How Do They Do It?
52(8)
Mind-Blindness
53(2)
Becoming a Psychologist
55(2)
When Little Brother Is Watching
57(3)
What Children Learn About Things
60(32)
What Newborns Know
64(6)
The Irresistible Allure of Stripes
64(1)
The Importance of Movement
65(2)
Seeing the World Through 3-D Glasses
67(3)
The Tree in the Quad and the Keys in the Washcloth
70(3)
Making Things Happen
73(6)
Kinds of Things
79(4)
How Do They Do It?
83(9)
World-Blindness
84(1)
The Explanatory Drive
85(3)
Grown-ups as Teachers
88(4)
What Children Learn About Language
92(41)
The Sound Code
94(3)
Making Meanings
97(2)
The Grammar We Don't Learn in School
99(3)
What Newborns Know
102(8)
Taking Care of the Sounds: Becoming a Language-Specific Listener
106(4)
The Tower of Babble
110(2)
The First Words
112(5)
Putting It Together
117(3)
How Do They Do It?
120(13)
Word-Blindness: Dyslexia and Dysphasia
120(2)
Learning Sounds
122(3)
Learning How to Mean
125(3)
``Motherese''
128(5)
What Scientists Have Learned About Children's Minds
133(41)
Evolution's Programs
134(5)
The Star Trek Archaeologists
139(4)
Foundations
143(4)
Learning
147(17)
The Developmental View: Sailing in Ulysses' Boat
149(4)
Big Babies
153(2)
The Scientist as Child: The Theory Theory
155(7)
Explanation as Orgasm
162(2)
Other People
164(10)
Nurture as Nature
165(5)
The Klingons and the Vulcans
170(2)
Sailing Together
172(2)
What Scientists Have Learned About Children's Brains
174(24)
The Adult Brain
175(5)
How Brains Get Built
180(3)
Wiring the Brain: Talk to Me
183(3)
Synaptic Pruning: When a Loss Is a Gain
186(3)
Are There Critical Periods?
189(5)
The Social Brain
194(1)
The Brain in the Boat
195(3)
Trailing Clouds of Glory
198(15)
What Is to Be Done?
198(8)
The Clouds
206(7)
Notes 213(14)
References 227(38)
Index 265

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