Rational Statistical Inference and Cognitive Development

Rational Statistical Inference and Cognitive Development

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TITLE	Rational Statistical Inference and Cognitive Development	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Fei Xu	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	; University of British Columbia; and the future, vol. 3. Oxford University Press.)	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4, or email to	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	All students of cognitive development agree that the central questions in development are 1) specifying the initial state of a human infant, 2) specifying the final state of development for a human adult, and 3) specifying how to get from the initial state to the final state. Then academic disputes ensue. Cognitive developmental psychologists are roughly divided into two camps: those who are more or less nativists and those who are more or less empiricists. Some psychologists do not like these terms, and some alternatives are “those who believe in innate knowledge ” and “those who believe in learning, ” or “those who believed in initial conceptual knowledge ” and “those who believe in initial perceptual capabilities. ” This division is also correlated with whether a researcher believes in domain specificity or not: nativists tend to argue for domain-specific knowledge (even at the beginning of development) and domain-specific learning mechanisms; empiricists tend to argue for domain-general learning mechanisms that may result in domain-specific knowledge some years into development (for some representative explications of these views, see Carey &	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
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