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001403911 1001_ $$aHarris, Paul L.,$$d1946-
001403911 24510 $$aTrusting what you're told$$h[electronic resource] :$$bhow children learn from others /$$cPaul L. Harris.
001403911 2463_ $$aTrusting what you are told
001403911 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2012.
001403911 300__ $$a1 online resource (253 p.) :$$bill.
001403911 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [222]-241) and index.
001403911 5050_ $$aEarly learning from testimony -- Children's questions -- Learning from a demonstration -- Moroccan birds and twisted tubes -- Trusting those you know? -- Consensus and dissent -- Moral judgment and testimony -- Knowing what is real -- Death and the afterlife -- Magic and miracles -- Going native.
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001403911 520__ $$aIf children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, as conventional wisdom holds, how would a child discover that the earth is round-never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Overturning both cognitive and commonplace theories about how children learn, Trusting What You're Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others. Children recognize early on that other people are an excellent source of information. And so they ask questions. But youngsters are also remarkably discriminating as they weigh the responses they elicit. And how much they trust what they are told has a lot to do with their assessment of its source. This book opens a window into the moral reasoning of elementary school vegetarians, the preschooler's ability to distinguish historical narrative from fiction, and the six-year-old's nuanced stance toward magic: skeptical, while still open to miracles. Paul Harris shares striking cross-cultural findings, too, such as that children in religious communities in rural Central America resemble Bostonian children in being more confident about the existence of germs and oxygen than they are about souls and God. We are biologically designed to learn from one another, Harris demonstrates, and this greediness for explanation marks a key difference between human beings and our primate cousins. Even Kanzi, a genius among bonobos, never uses his keyboard to ask for information: he asks only for treats.
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001403911 650_0 $$aLearning, Psychology of.
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