Brad Paulsen wrote:
Hear Ye, Hear Ye...
CHILDREN LEARN SMART BEHAVIORS WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THEY KNOW
http://www.physorg.com/news132839991.html
It's garbage science. Or at least, it is a garbage headline.
There is a whole body of experiments done with adults in which subjects
are asked to learn about several conceptual categories as a result of
seeing only exemplars of the categories, without ever being told
explicitly what the reasons are for a given instance being in one
category or another.
These adults can easily pick up the categories even when they cannot
easily articulate what the criteria are. This is concept building, and
it is one of the most fundamental activities of the human mind.
Is it surprising or new that children do the same thing? It should be
stupidly obvious that they do the same thing. Children spend all their
time voraciously separating the world out into categories, using almost
nothing but exemplar-based learning.
Just because I believe that there is much of value in cognitive science,
doesn't mean I will defend everything done in its name.
Richard Loosemore
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