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What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Most Peers Respect Rewards Social Teenagers Want

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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

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Topics: Beings Childhood Distinctive Evolutionary Features Human Human Beings Long Most Our Protected

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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

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Topics: Adult Becoming Future Leaving Make Means Parents Peers Share Starting Toward Way Will World You Your

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Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

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Topics: Basic Controlled Designing Developmental Experiments Explore Learning Like Me Science Scientists

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Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Also Causes Children Conclusions Discover Draw Effective Effective Way Get Information Learn Less Likely Makes Music Play Press Pull Say Something Specific Teaching Then Tube Unexpected Very Way

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The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

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Topics: Another Best Controlled Discover Experiment Factor Influences Scientific Way

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The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

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We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

~Alison Gopnik

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One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

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In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Around Attention Babies Big Cared Children Culture Dedicated Growing Growing Up Had History Human Human History Isolation Just Just One Lots Many Most Our Paying People Person Places Really Related Shift Them Think Times Up Were Which Who I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: June 16th, 1955

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