Summary Of Alison Gopnik Kiddy Think

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In Alison Gopnik’s essay “Kiddy Thinks” (the Guardian Weekly, February 3-9, 2000), she uses both scientific experiments as well as research to explain the stages of children’s cognitive development between newborn to age four, and how the type of childcare they have affects their abilities to learn. Using her personal experience she had with her son when he was a toddler and first discovered that we are able to think and do things differently, she transitions into an experiment that was done with newborn babies (“youngest tested was 42 minutes old”) explaining that newborns have never seen their own faces but are able to mimic when someone sticks their tongue out or makes a silly face, showing that they understand the similarity between their