The Onion ran a satirical article, “Study Reveals: Babies are Stupid (Links to an external site.)
.” The first sentence: “A surprising new study released Monday by UCLA’s Institute For Child Development revealed that human babies, long thought by psychologists to be highly inquisitive and adaptable, are actually extraordinarily stupid.”
Based on what you learned in this unit and the e-book, react to this claim.
? In what ways are infants, and young children, surprisingly smart?
? What are their limitations and what are important cognitive developmental milestones in the first few years of life?
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