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children quantity concepts, time & number

perceive quantities vs symbolic of number

perceived time vs symbols of time

animals and infants perceive quantities without symbols

language aspect

Lera Boroditsky language and categories TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

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childhood development

infants (3-4 mos) will classify if they see a cat over & over

they know that dogs are different, (anomaly detection)

kids aren’t always good at categorizing according to characteristics

kids w/o language can classify things

psychologists still don’t really know

and there’s always gonna be a new/better machine

emotion -

moral categories in humans influenced by emotion, embodied

integers are discrete, symbols, time is on a continuum

theory: same area of the brain processes time space & quantities

what is fair vs not fair, good vs bad… which side…

what are infants using to decide cat vs dog

see a dog: “Oh, it’s a cat because it has four legs, it’s a house pet”

how many features do you need to to fit a category… …detecting a different…

infant studies are based on looking-time

children tend to have a shape bias, group things by shape, over color

study random objects, circles & squares, put eyes on them or not, did different motions, kids notice that …object does the “wrong” action, https://www.pnas.org/content/110/41/E3965

often time adult studies are included at the end of infant studies

BC moral development…

whether moral stories like george washington actually promote honest, only based on hearing the positive outcome of moral

childrens tv, often it teaches morality,

sometimes they only think about the lesson is about dogs…

inaccurate assumptions, some kind of assumption

kids are very literal , not good with abstract concepts, blah

rats and smelling bombs,

emotional component…

Lakoff “Where mathematics comes from…” raphael nunes , metaphor

14:56:42 From Karina Hamamouche : Lera Boroditsky 15:28:02 From Scott Hawley : https://jpminda.com/2019/07/31/there-are-two-kinds-of-categorization-researchers/ 15:28:45 From Karina Hamamouche : Powell & Spelke (2013) 15:31:44 From Karina Hamamouche : People to check re. moral categories:

Paul Harris** Nadia Chernyak Katie McAuliffe Peter Blake** Felix Warneken Yarrow Dunham Fiery Cushman** Liane Young**

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