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.