LEADER 03956nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910973906703321 005 20240416155117.0 010 $a9780674069848 010 $a0674069846 010 $a9780674065192 010 $a0674065190 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065192 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039407 035 $a(OCoLC)835374467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10678689 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860902 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11943770 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860902 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10915107 035 $a(PQKB)10209389 035 $a(DE-B1597)178189 035 $a(OCoLC)979683680 035 $a(OCoLC)984682073 035 $a(OCoLC)987949484 035 $a(OCoLC)992507632 035 $a(OCoLC)999360016 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301258 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678689 035 $a(OCoLC)923119388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301258 035 $a(Perlego)1147950 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039407 100 $a20111118d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrusting what you're told $ehow children learn from others /$fPaul L. Harris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674503830 311 08$a067450383X 311 08$a9780674065727 311 08$a0674065727 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [222]-241) and index. 327 $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. 330 $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. 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. 606 $aLearning, Psychology of 606 $aChildren 615 0$aLearning, Psychology of. 615 0$aChildren. 676 $a155.4/1315 700 $aHarris$b Paul L.$f1946-$0170081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973906703321 996 $aTrusting what you're told$94362127 997 $aUNINA