Element of surprise helps babies learn

[Panich52]

Element of surprise helps babies learn

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/-talsDYoMqY/150402161501.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Cognitive psychologists have demonstrated for the first time that babies learn new things by leveraging the core information they are born with. When something surprises a baby, like an object not behaving the way a baby expects it to, the baby not only focuses on that object, but ultimately learns more about it than from a similar yet predictable object.

[guillaumeb]

1. where is the element of surprise in the periodic table?

[SheilaT]

2. Here. This is learning about the periodic table with surprises.

Like the chemistry party.

[guillaumeb]

3. I have never seen this video

Thanks for the lesson.

[SheilaT]

5. I came across it because a former math teacher of mine

posted it on his FB page. Isn't it great?!

[Staph]

4. Fascinating!

I wonder if that is why adults have this predilection to playing peekaboo with babies. Perhaps the baby "knows" that you see with eyes and wonders why the adults' eyes have disappeared. And the adults unconsciously "know" that the baby will pay more attention, be more interested in a surprising adult.