Posted on 05/13/2023 4:38:11 PM PDT by devane617
While people change and learn throughout life, experts recognize that certain formative periods, known as developmental windows, are crucial for acquiring particular skills. For example, using vocalizations and words to interact with people in the first few years of life is critical for children's language learning.
A recent study by an international team from UCLA, Romania and Israel suggests there may be a developmental window for reasoning skills as well—the first 25 years of life—and that a person's social, political and economic environment strongly influences how they acquire these skills. Their findings are published in the journal PLOS One.
The researchers found that following the collapse of Romania's authoritarian communist regime in 1989, the rapid increase in education and technology use and the transition from a single, government-controlled source of information to diverse sources had a strong effect on the way people, particularly younger generations, thought about and determined truthfulness, a process known as "epistemic thinking."
Epistemic thinking runs the gamut from absolutist thinking, the belief that only one claim can be right, to multiplist thinking, the belief that more than one claim could be right—it's just a matter of opinion. Finally, evaluativist thinking posits that assertions can be evaluated in terms of both logic and evidence.
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I like it.
Perversion, pot smoking, drinking, and I would add going to college.
Dang!
Our education was originally designed around the development windows of the mind. That’s why you aren’t learning calculus at 8 years of age. If you haven’t started learning a skill by the time you are 12 years old, the mind prunes the area of the brain that can handle that skill and, learning after your window closes, pretty much ensures that you’ll have lifelong difficulty in learning that skill.
“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” - G.K. Chesterton
Great photo of the state of the art television. Probably three TV networks NBC,CBS and later ABC within 100 miles that began at 6pm and ended with the national anthem at midnight.
ABC had fewer cities with coverage than the other two. Our first TV was a little later version-—not round.
I was a tot with Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo, Ernie Kovacs, Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason. Watched the 1952 and 1956 national political conventions avidly, sitting on the carpet in front. Loved politics from the beginning.
All I know is someone tried to peer into AOC’s head looking for her intellect’s developmental window and saw clear through to the other side of the room.
Rare amount of “transparency” for a politician.
1) hope you recover from the bashing you (deservedly) will get.
2) I read once that a baby boy in the womb has a wash of testosterone over him that separates the communication between parts of the brain in the two hemispheres. After that the male can take charge of a physical attack defense or focus entirely on one problem to solve it. He may not pick up clues that someone is fooling him or cheating him while a female will notice these. He also has to struggle to “get in touch with his feminine side” to avoid simple aggressive, battling goal seeking all the time.
The female baby does not get that “wash” of testosterone on her brain in the womb. She is free to access any part of the brain at any time and my become distracted during an attack or a crisis but she can find ways to protect a child or herself by finding one way that will work instead of sticking to one like a male. But she has to work harder to stay focused on one task in a goal oriented situation.
It appears you don’t cycle at all. 😆
” My daydream is dropping a 5MT nuke on Davos”
I like the way you think. I think Donald Trump is going to make our daydream come true but probably not with a nuke. 😏
I’ve got a large collection of flame retardant suits given to me by freepers through the years.
Good. Without freedom of speech here we would be just like the outside world, such as it is.
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