Alison Gopnik Quotes
Top 26 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Alison Gopnik on Wise Famous Quotes.
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.