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The Scientist in the Crib Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn

Alison Gopnik

This book combines two worlds -- children and science -- in an entirely unique way that yields exciting discoveries about both. The authors show that by the time children are three, they've solved problems that stumped Socrates with an agility computers still can't match.

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Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

Alison Gopnik, a psychologist, also mentioned her book 'The Scientist in the Crib' when discussing her research on young children's minds and their capacity for learning and understanding.

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The Scientist in the Crib was another.

— Episode: Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)

Episode: Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)

Alison Gopnik, a psychologist, also mentioned her book 'The Scientist in the Crib' when discussing her research on young children's minds and their capacity for learning and understanding.

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The Scientist in the Crib was another.

Episode: 168. Think Like a Child

It was mentioned as one of Alison Gopnik's books about her research on children's minds, particularly how young children learn so quickly about the world.

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The Scientist in the Crib was another.

This American Life

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This American Life

The episode highlighted the book as a synthesis of research showing that infants act as little scientists, actively observing and drawing logical conclusions from birth. Ira Glass introduced the work, emphasizing its insight into child cognition and how it reframes babies as rational learners rather than irrational beings.

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Episode: 605: Kid Logic

The book summarized research suggesting that babies are not irrational but are actively observing the world and coming to logical conclusions from birth, much like little scientists.

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When Allison Gopnett and two of her colleagues decided to summarize a lot of this research in a book, they called it the scientist in the crib.

Meaning that babies are like little scientists.

StarTalk Radio

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StarTalk Radio

It was recommended as a book that explores the research on how toddlers are naturally experimenting and learning physics, such as gravity.

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I'm going to recommend a book called The Scientist in the Crib by a developmental psychologist, Alison Gottmik, who which covers all this research.

— Episode: The Science of Learning with Heather Ber...

Episode: The Science of Learning with Heather Berlin

It was recommended as a book that explores the research on how toddlers are naturally experimenting and learning physics, such as gravity.

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I'm going to recommend a book called The Scientist in the Crib by a developmental psychologist, Alison Gottmik, who which covers all this research.

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