What do babies think? - Alison Gopnik
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- "Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
Talk by Alison Gopnik.
Thor most meaningful ted- talk I had ever listened so far👍
What a great speaker
It seems to me like they're able to find these unlikely hypotheses because they don't realize they're unlikely; they haven't been conditioned to know what's likely and what isn't.
Chickens are not dumb as stumps... they have complex language and social interactions. They are smart how they need to be.
Searched gopnik facts and found this
“How Babies Think” changed my world.
She looks like a female Brian Cox.
I'm a gifted magnet student (not trying to brag), but something I've noticed is that most non-gifted students did not do much learning before school, while most gifted students did. I'm not talking about ABC Mouse or any of that, I'm talking about plain, simple, learning. When I was two years old (yes, that young,) my brother wanted to play Halo with me on our Xbox. So, I ended up learning that the left joystick moves me around, the right joystick turns my head, the triggers shoot and throw grenades, etc. My brother had blood turned off so that I wouldn't get nightmares, but as I grew older and gained consciousness, that ended up happening anyways (a sign of intellectual growth - I soon realized that I was just killing people and causing harm; I knew it wasn't real, but I couldn't see myself doing that, so I was fine with my brother playing, and I was fine with watching him [even with blood on], but playing myself was mortal terror). I learned words like "trigger", "bumper", "joystick", "teleport", "plasma" (plasma guns), "banshee" - and I was just two years old. We also played car racing games, and I quickly learned about different car companies and countries. I had to learn that the white rectangle with a red circle in the middle was the flag of Japan, and also that if I wanted to drive a Nissan, Toyota, Honda, etc, that they would all be in the Japanese car section.
So I think that was really a big starting point. As I kept learning random things through random situations, my inquiry began developing and I wanted to learn more and more and more. The more I learn, the more I seem to want to know. Before I knew about atoms, I didn't care what everything was made of. Then all of a sudden, I find myself wondering what atoms were made of. Then what neutrons/protons/electrons were made of. Now, what quarks and gluons are made of.
Not to mention that I was raised bilingual, and that my parents are from Venezuela. Ask a 1st grader what Venezuela is and they'll likely say, "What's that?" unless they're form there, like me. So from there, I learned about nearby countries - not a lot, but some - like Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and a few others. And about bilingualism, I didn't understand how language could have meaning to others - it was extremely confusing to me. I wondered how a monolingual who was born blind could know what a door was just from touching it - to me, if that person were me, I'd know what a door was because it was a puerta, and I'd know what a puerta was because it was a door. It was extremely dependent for me. If I learned a new word, I would understand it, but I didn't know _how I did_.
This lead me to be very interested in learning other languages; currently with Duolingo, I'm taking French, and every now and then I work on Esperanto, Turkish, German, Danish, and Italian (but all very rarely). It also lead me to notice linguistic patterns faster than most of my friends - I knew that "uni" meant one, that "bi" meant two, and that "tri" meant three since kindergarten. I knew this because if a *uni*cycle had one wheel, if a *bi*cycle had two wheels, and if a *tri*cycle had three wheels, then it would be obvious that "uni" meant one, that "bi" meant two, and that "tri" meant three. Language Arts was easy for me, because the differences that English and Spanish have amongst each other made me quickly excel - for instance, different perspectives were easy for me. "Yo como," "Tú comes," and "Nosotros comemos" (I didn't know about "Usted", "Ustedes", or "Vosotros" since my parents rarely said them, so I ended up thinking that "Tú" could be plural like "You" can in English, but I understand s vs n, so I would say "Tú comes" for one person and "Tú comen" for multiple) are just one example of this - when I learned something in my class, I would realize the difference in the grammar for that particular thing between English and in Spanish, and would learn it much faster than my friends, or realize that I already knew it.
However, you know how hard it was for me to get into the gifted program? Most kids got in when they were in kindergarten or first grade. Well here's how it went for me - in Kindergarten, I took the test, I failed. 1st grade, I took the test, I failed. 2nd grade, I took the test, the results came much later than usual, I passed. Beginning of 3rd grade, I took the 2nd test, and in December, they said I got into the gifted program. Now how is this even close to accurate? Yes, I understand not caring or paying attention takes points off, but that should be expected in children! And you know why I'm gifted? *Because by chance, I happened to be in an environment that forced me to learn when I was younger*. I didn't know that there was a difference between China and Japan and Korea from birth; I actually learned that. Yeah, it was through games, but I still had to learn it!
I really think that the education system should focus more on just random facts at an early age, and not go into the usual style of teaching until we're a bit older. If I hadn't learned from an early age, I would have never had such a strong longing for knowledge; I don't even care what it's about. I want to see a future where this is true, but that future being very soon - most of my gifted friends share similar childhoods in that we randomly learned for whatever reason when we were younger. If we want our kids being bright as possible, then our education system needs to kick it up many notches. For one, our system should be more like Finland in that it's actually good. In case you didn't know, the US doesn't even rank in the top ten of best education systems, with all this wealth everywhere (yes, it's very unequal, but the fact that it's there means the government has access to it). We're number 12. And who's number one? You guessed it - "Tiny Finland," as +In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt said about them and their nuclear waste facility. Next, we should make it so that it teaches those random facts when we're young, and actually teaches us when we're older (while continuing the facts, so we don't end up curious about everything, while leaving some holes here and there so we discover things like youtube where we have access to CGP Grey and TedEd, to learn even *more* than we already do).
Once again, all my gifted friends share similar childhoods - I highly doubt it's just pure coincidence.
I'm just like you in the beginning of my childhood, full of curiousity. But people around me were toxic and my circumstances were that of a poor in wealth but was in more other meaning than common poor. And then, i was an awkward child without a right support made me grown into a deppressed teenager with commitment issues because i had no motivation at all. Here i am, failling my math and jobless. What am i gonna do with my life? I am only a ghost shade.
Wishing you strength, confidence and patience. My experience has been that extensive exposure to a moving screen - whether television, computer or smart phone - leads to feelings of isolation, boredom and self-doubt. In short, try to get away from these 'spoon-feeding technologies' as frequently as you can; resist the temptation to vegetate in front of them, easier said than done, but essential to mental health.
@@wanderingghost7324 I'm not that bright and the people around me were and still a lot of them are toxic. I was unemployed as well, and a breakup with my girlfriend after 7 years of relationship left me in the dust. I hope you are doing well since you wrote that comment, but just in case I want to share you that I heard of Alison Gopnik because I was depressed, anxious, and the people around me have no idea how they could help me. I went to therapy, two years ago but, the therapist was not very good, since she relies high in the "popular wisdom". I took antidepressants for almost two years. Then I realize that I had my computer and my brain, ill, but still useful, and I tought: What if I Google "The best psychologists currently" or something like that. In that list there were: Steven Pinker, Philip Zimbardo, Martin Seligman, Richard Wiseman, Barbara Fredrickson, Alison Gopnik, Elizabeth Loftus, Robert Cialdini,..., Etc. All with a short description of their work. I searched some of the books that were on the description. I started to read Love 2.0 of Barbara Fredrickson. It Is a tremendous book, based on solid science that makes me recover my mind and strenghtened my hope. I didn't trust before that just by reading something I could start feeling better, but that actually happened, because the insights of the books were very deep. I am reading right now Positivity from Barbara Fredrickson as well. I started to read "The Luck Factor" of Richard Wiseman. So, I recomend to you that books, or just search like me "The Best authors of wathever you think your life lack". By the way i was looking for Alison Gopnik because I even started to dream that some day I could have children.
This is a full on autobiography. Can someone make a TL;DR summary
@@romanp9555 Apparently not all 😭😭😭
Her description of baby consciousness sounds exactly like ADHD
It's sad that she has such an outdated view of chickens! They are very intelligent individuals! She needs to research chicken intelligence a little bit!
my son is 23 lmfao i love teds
Young children navigate the world through play!
Absolutely correct 😃
Her surname is funny, russians will understand me XD
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