Study guide for Scientist in the Crib

1. Chapter One.

The three epistemological problems: other minds, the world of objects, and language.

What are the three main principles that explain human development ( derived from Socrates, Piaget and Vygotzky)

2. What children learn about people

What children already know when they come into the world

What children learn in the first two years

People blindness

3. What children learn about things

What do they know when they come into the world

What do they learn in the first two years

Examples of the type of experimental design used to study babies' ability to recognize objects

4. What children learn about language

What computers tell us about the challenges of learning about language

Children's ability to discriminate sounds

Motherese

Word blindness and Motherese