6 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2023
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heuristic
enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves:
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Too much indulgence or too little stimulation may lead to fixation.
This is interesting to me as my son with down syndrome developed at a very young age to suck on his fingers and I never did much to restrict him from it because I was told it was a way he self soothes, he is five now and struggles to break the habit.
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The Perry Preschool Project which began in 1962 is an example of a longitudinal study that continues to provide data on children’s development.
Research this project for more info on data
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cohort
a group of people with a shared characteristic: "a cohort of civil servants patiently drafting legislation"
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Science offers a more systematic way to make comparisons guard against bias.
Science is theoritical and we tend to forget that, I forget that around people that are more rigid in their thinking at times
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Read the following sentence aloud: Paris in the the spring Are you sure that is what it said? Read it again: Paris in the the spring If you read it differently the second time (adding the second “the”) you just experienced one of the problems with personal inquiry; that is, the tendency to see what we believe. Our assumptions very often guide our perceptions, consequently, when we believe something, we tend to see it even if it is not there. This problem may just be a result of cognitive ‘blinders’ or it may be part of a more conscious attempt to support our own views. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for evidence that we are right and in so doing, we ignore contradictory evidence.
Subjectivity in scientifical theories according to perception or bias
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