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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Differences in language (numbers) reflect subtle differences in cultures tools of intellectual adaptation they affect how a child learns to think.

      Asians are better at arithmetic because they learn mathematics different than the Westerns(ninthy two / nine of tens and a two)

    2. Habituation is a decrease in looking at a stimulus

      Babies will look at the new stimuli longer. Not because they like it better because they want to explore it. Once they get used to it(habituation) they will not give that much attention anymore

    3. embryonic phase, the risk of birth defects is highest (since organs are forming). In the fetal stage, alcohol mainly affects growth and brain development.

      There is a chance that child can birthed without abnormally when the mother consumed alcohol after the organs developed. (First 10 weeks)

    4. There is a well-researched difference between Westerners and non-Westerners in terms of perceiving stimuli. Americans, for example, rely more on noticing individual objects as abstract entities and separate from the background. Japanese are more likely to perceive the image and the interrelationships between objects as a whole

      Remember the fish example. Us people say there a fish swimming maybe some plants however the Japan people would also mentioned the environment the current flow where were the objects stands etc

  2. Oct 2025
    1. true idea: • It is clear and not ambiguous. • It is distinctive, well-defined, and different from other ideas. • It is the result of deduction (from the general rule to the special rule).

      The main ideas proposed my Descartes are rationalism,