03819nam 2200661 a 450 991045271750332120200520144314.00-674-06984-60-674-06519-010.4159/harvard.9780674065192(CKB)2550000001039407(OCoLC)835374467(CaPaEBR)ebrary10678689(SSID)ssj0000860902(PQKBManifestationID)11943770(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860902(PQKBWorkID)10915107(PQKB)10209389(MiAaPQ)EBC3301258(DE-B1597)178189(OCoLC)979683680(OCoLC)984682073(OCoLC)987949484(OCoLC)992507632(OCoLC)999360016(DE-B1597)9780674065192(Au-PeEL)EBL3301258(CaPaEBR)ebr10678689(OCoLC)923119388(EXLCZ)99255000000103940720111118d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTrusting what you're told[electronic resource] how children learn from others /Paul L. HarrisCambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20121 online resource (262 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-06572-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-241) and index.Early 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.If 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. Trusting What You're Told 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 only asks for treats.Learning, Psychology ofChildrenElectronic books.Learning, Psychology of.Children.155.4/1315Harris Paul L.1946-170081MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452717503321Trusting what you're told2454639UNINA01152nam0 22003011i 450 UON0005128220231205102227.6647-7000-790-620020107d1990 |0itac50 baengUS||||p |||||Japan's longest daycompiled by The Pacific War Research Society[8th printing]Tokyo and New YorkKodansha International1990339 p.ill.20 cmGIAPPONESTORIASECONDA GUERRA MONDIALEUONC002744FIJPTōkyōUONL000031USNew YorkUONL000050GIA IV BGIAPPONE - STORIA MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEAAˆThe ‰Pacific War Research SocietyUONV032501KōdanshaUONV246777650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00051282SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI GIA IV B 234 N SI SA 93968 5 234 N Japan's longest day1144837UNIOR