Filling The Pail

David C Geary

Aug 30, 2021

50:55

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Cognitive Evolution and Intelligence

03:53

Learning Through Problem Solving

04:03

How Do We Stop the Cycle, Get Off the Merry Go Round?

05:42

Introduction

2min

Is There a Difference Between Language and Literacy?

3min

The Basic Difference Between Primary and Secondary Knowledge

3min

The Inquila Pice

2min

Isstella Nolson's Subsumption Theory?

2min

How Do You Know if You Understand One, Two, Three?

2min

Schooling

2min

Is Storytelling Primary?

3min

Your Theory Is Not Yet Developped, Is It?

3min

10.

What Is the Hole Language Theory?

2min

11.

Evolution in Human Behavior

2min

12.

Do You Really Need to Teach Biology in Primary Schools?

2min

13.

Cognitive Load Theory

3min

14.

Cognitive Evolution and Intelligence

4min

15.

Learning Through Problem Solving

4min

16.

Is There Potential in That?

2min

17.

How Locked Down Has Affected Education?

3min

18.

How to Develop a Basic Skillset

2min

19.

How Do We Stop the Cycle, Get Off the Merry Go Round?

6min

David C. Geary is Curators' Distinguished Professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. In this episode, he talks to Greg Ashman about his influential theory of evolutionary educational psychology that categorises knowledge as biologically primary or biologically secondary. Along the way, Dave and Greg discuss knowledge transmission in traditional societies, some common criticisms of the biologically primary/secondary distinction and both the artificality and importance of school.