In the Bonawitz paper, she argues that children learn causation through the Monte Carlo method. This is similar to a Bayesian inference in that the posterior hypothesis is proportional to the likelihood that the data would occur if the hypothesis is true and prior probability of the hypothesis. However, instead of sampling all the possible hypotheses that could explain the observed data children randomly sample a few. The chance that a hypothesis is randomly sampled is according to the likelihood it is correct. This is called the Monte Carlo method also known as the sampling hypothesis. This way the brain does less computation to get to the same answer. However, it may lead to the wrong answer occasionally due to the random sampling nature. …show more content…
In the short wait the children had two trials back to back; while in the long wait condition there was a two week period between the two trials. Children were presented an assorted of red and blue chips in an 80:20 ratio and were both of which activated a machine. Chips were placed in the bag and it tip over into the machine. Children were asked which of the chips activated the machine. The results showed that the group in the long wait condition guesses as to what chip more closely reflected the proportion of red chip to blue chips. This supports that independence between sampling is necessary for accurate probability matching. Next this experiment was expanding in way to test the noisy maximizing theory. The children were presented three different “conditions”: a 95:5 condition, a 75:25 condition and a 50:50 condition. If noisy maximizing theory were true then children would have the same response for the 95:5 condition and the 75:25 condition. This is because in both conditions children processing at ceiling levels which in this case is set to anything about ~72%. The results show that children’s guess about the red chip had a linear relationship with the proportion of the red chip to the blue chip. This showed that children were not in fact using this strategy to solve causation problems leaving naïve frequency matching and sampling hypothesis. The third experiment was the same as the second only with three conditions instead of two. So the children had three possible hypotheses with differing probabilities. The results showed that the children’s response can still be predicted via the sampling hypothesis when there are multiple choices. The final experiment tested whether children use sampling hypothesis or naïve frequency matching. Children were presented two bags one had a red blue ratio of 14:6 and the second bag had a red blue
All of these theories have to do with the way children learn the instructions that are given to them. The “watch me” theory is when a teacher, parent, or caregiver say to the child that is learning “watch me” and shows them how to do the task. “ It is vitally important to support and encourage self-directed activities by the infant and young child. Even if those activities appear meaningless to us, they can have great purpose and significance for the child” (Elkind, 92). When a child is given an opportunity to create their own learning they will be able to understand more information around them. Next, is the “little sponge” theory is the idea that children can learn as fast as adults around them do. That is not true at all children learn at a lower level than adults and that is okay. They are pure to the world and are interested in the things that adults take for granted. Last, is the “look harder” theory which is pretty self explanatory. When children do not see what adults do, adults tell them to “look harder.” (Elkind, 99). Children see the world very differently then what adults see it. They have to learn so much when they are so young that they are becoming overstimulated and are wanting to give
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Jean Piaget became fascinated with the reasons behind why children cannot correctly answer questions that require logical thinking. Piaget was the first psychologist to conduct an organized study of the intellectual advancement in children. Before Piaget’s study, many believed children were merely less efficient thinkers than adults. Due to his study, however, Piaget proved children think in remarkably different ways than adults. Children are born with a very primitive mental complex that is genetically inherited and learned on which all the following knowledge and learning is based (McLeod, 2015).
For example how do things really work? One of the examples that were used was the drawing of the school bus, how is it that kids under the age ten can get this right? A child will see the bus heading to the left because they are familiar with buses, and they can picture the bus moving, as for the adults there is a scientific term “the illusion of knowledge” The human brain is wired to provide an answer to help us feel in control, even though the answer is incorrect we still seek a answer that will make us believe that we understand what is going on. For example some college students were asked to draw a basic bike; surprisingly most of the drawings were drawn incorrect. This shows how the brain was over confident and made the impression that it understood the simple concept of drawing a bike, this proves that the brain does not know how a bicycle may function but it can fool you and make you believe that you understood the concept of a
The data presented shows that participants have a faster reaction time when partaking in the congruent condition, compared to the incongruent and non colour conditions. These findings support Stroop’s widely known theory of the stroop interference. By Stroop’s experimental findings, he has described that interference occurs by the automation of reading, where the brain automatically read the semantic meaning of word (e.g reading the colour blue and thinking of the colour blue). It is not an automatic process, when the brain needs to intentionally check itself and correctly identify the colour of the word. This explains the faster reaction time in the congruent condition, compared to the other incongruent and non colour condition. Sheibe, Shaver and Carrier’s theory can also be applied to this context as it is illustrated in the results that interference does occur via automatic
Marissa Irelan and I presented on the CogLab named Simon Effect. In this CogLab, the participants had to react to a visual stimuli, a green or red square, by pressing keys on a keyboard. They were testing to see if the reaction is faster and more accurate when a stimulus occurs in relatively the same location as the response, event though the location information may be irrelevant to the actual task. By studying the Simon Effect, researchers are able to look closer into our decision making stage called “response selection.” This stage of decision making is after you have identified the stimulus, so then you have to choose what your response will be. However, this isn’t to be confused with the last stage where you actually execute your response
Introduction: The Simon effect refers to the finding that people are faster and more accurate responding to stimuli that occur in the same relative location as the response, even though the location information is irrelevant to the actual task (Simon, 1969). In studying the Simon effect it is possible to understand response selection. There are three stages which must be taken into consideration: Stimulus identification, response selection and response execution. Thus, the focus of this experiment is to determine whether or not people are faster and perhaps more accurate responding to stimuli in the same relative location as the response, despite the fact that the location information is irrelevant.
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The control group was the group given a list of 20 random words and the experiment group was the group given a list of 20 related words. Random group allocation of participants to both of the two conditions was used to counter-balance the individual differences of the participants.
This demonstrated in an experiment by John Ridley Stroop (1935) where he investigated the how well student participants were able to state the color of the word rather than reading the word itself. The researcher predicted that naming the color of the word takes longer and is more prone to errors than when the color of the ink matches the name of the color. In the experiment participants were given a ten word sample before the first reading of each test. At the beginning of each test t...
The horse-race model estimates for the main effects of word to conclude that identification is faster than color identification. Conflicting color would interfere with name of ink of the color in which word is printed resulting in Stroop effect. It’s shown in research that words are read faster than naming the colors (Macleod 1991). The prediction for the main effects of congruency is that the overall congruent trial should be faster with shorter reaction time than incongruent trials. The prediction for interaction is that there should be interaction because when the task is to name the word, the word information is processed quicker, the color information is going to cause a lesser amount of conflict and if the word information is processed first then the color processing becomes
The Stroop Effect is widely known for its accomplishment and psychological relevance. The first experiment was conducted by James McKeen Cattel and Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt. They set out to explain and find why it take longer processing time when naming an object and/or color (Stroop, J. R., 1992). Being able to understand this cognitive process of Reaction Time (RT) allowed experimenters to devised procedures to further prove the concept. There are many reasons why RT and cognitive function interference can occur. It was termed The Stroop Effect after John Ridley Stroop who studied interference and published an article in 1935 outlining his findings. While, was not the first to propose this effect he did however, revolutionized the method in which interference can
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By observing their behaviour, I have learned their qualities and like the bobo doll experiment, I’ve come to realized that my teaching methods for my younger brother was also very similar to the way my father taught me. Since being a toddler, my disposition has always leaned towards an optimistic view. My behaviour is also connected to the attribution theory, as my disposition (internal attribution) has always leaned towards a more optimistic view on the world, which explains why I less prone to feelings of inferiority and
In Milgram's experiment volunteers were put into an experiment where they drew straws with another individual who was an actor to determine who was the learner or teacher. This set up so that the actor was always the learner. The straw drawing process creates a certain bond between the individual being tested and the learner. The individual