What Every Baby Knows

Reflection: what every baby knows is about babies knowing things in the early stages of their lives without being fully aware of what they're doing. Some of the articles talk about babies being born knowing everything but not knowing how to communicate everything and sometimes loosing their knowledge over time. They talk about how babies learn by trial and error and already know how to do something like the instinct to cry for food or attention, or to blink or breathe. The second article talks about how babies are like blank slates and what they learn themselves when they're first born could be more important than any other information they could retain later on in their lives.

1. Inferential learning mechanisms
Refers to a baby's natural theory to learn by trial and error. A babies natural curiosity to test and touch and knowing when they are wrong or when they achieve a positive response. 

2. The first three years of a child's life are the most important because those years are when simple skills start to develop fully. The recognition of faces, people, emotions things like that. Those are the years when parents check to see if their child has a late developing learning disability like asburgers or autism. Apparently, according to this article three year old children aren't able to tell lies because they don't remember how they learned the things they learned, they understand other peoples minds much better than their own. 

3. I don't know how to respond to this question because I don't understand the question, nor do I agree with it. 

Intuition and Knowledge

• Reading think slices is being able to judge negatively or positively about a person after only ten seconds. It talks about observing someone for only ten seconds and letting your gut reaction shape your intuition about the person.

intuitive expertise is when someone gets use to something that they they are subconsciously relying on that information to base their other findings off of. When people memorize patterns or natural feelings it becomes automatic to them and they don't have to think about it ever time they do it, they just react. A good example of this would be driving a car. People get so good at it that they can automatically drive the car without having to think about each second. Their hands and feet automatically know what to do, take the keys out, press the gas, etc. 

The perils of relying on intuition is that by going with our gut instinct we're altering our thoughts about the things around us and how we perceive things. Like when people guess lottery numbers or put their money on stocks, it doesn't always work for the better. People assume that their intuition is a lot better than it really is. Overconfidence is driven by intuition but overconfidence isn't always a good thing. A study shows overconfident people got more of the answers on their tests correctly, but overconfidence also causes people to misjudge their situation. 

I do not think that intuition is fair in justifying wrong decision making. An example is George W. Bush and those quotes about going into war because he saw something in the enemies eyes and look were the nation ended up. I don't think it's ever good to rush into a situation that could be potentially dangerous without knowing all the facts or without taking time to properly assess the situation. Intuition is a 50/50 chance and sometimes that's not enough to ensure luck is on your side. The man who got shot by the police in the video and he wasn't even armed, that in no way can be justified by intuition. Those officers should've done their job properly and assessed the entire situation or figured out a better way to handle it instead of flying over the top and shooting the guy a bunch of times. It was very unnecessary. Sometimes you have to rely on intuition and sometimes you make mistakes but it's still your fault, you can't blame it on your intuition  you blame it on your self.