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Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from

Generally Intelligent

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Preferential Looking Paradigms in Developmental Science

There's a million different versions of this theory Berlin said things like this, Maria Montessori said something like infants are seeking out stuff that's just right. And what just writes generally met was that it's the right level of complexity based on where you're at in your development. So we don't know if every baby is going to be so idiosyncratic for every information they have access to. Even if you had a video box filled with everything a kid has ever been exposed to - even if you've seen 15 monkeys and wonder if how novel llama is – I'm not sure there would be any difference between those two cases.

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