Laura Schulz Research: The Amazing Minds Of Infants
The Amazing Minds of Infants
MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab lead investigator Laura Schulz studies learning in early childhood. Recently, she has been studying the ability of babies to draw conclusions from statistical evidence. One experiment that she used to test this was to pull balls out of a box of yellow and blue balls. From a box of mostly blue balls, three blue balls that squeaked were pulled out and shown to the baby. Then, a yellow ball was pulled out, and given to the baby. The babies showed a tendency to try to squeeze the yellow balls. The experiment was then repeated, but the box was filled with mostly yellow balls. In this experiment the babies showed a tendency to reach of the blue balls, rather than squeeze the yellow
MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab lead investigator Laura Schulz studies learning in early childhood. Recently, she has been studying the ability of babies to draw conclusions from statistical evidence. One experiment that she used to test this was to pull balls out of a box of yellow and blue balls. From a box of mostly blue balls, three blue balls that squeaked were pulled out and shown to the baby. Then, a yellow ball was pulled out, and given to the baby. The babies showed a tendency to try to squeeze the yellow balls. The experiment was then repeated, but the box was filled with mostly yellow balls. In this experiment the babies showed a tendency to reach of the blue balls, rather than squeeze the yellow