Article Review: “Big Answers from Little People” by Dobbs
In the article “Big Answers from Little People,” Dobbs (2005) aims to explain how infants start gaining knowledge and skills if they do not know anything when they are born. In other words, because knowledge is usually acquired and built upon previous knowledge, Dobbs explores how infants start learning without any previous knowledge by reporting Spelke’s findings. Spelke is a Harvard psychologist who conducts studies with infants that aim to clarify how human learning occurs in the early stages of life. Spelke’s findings explain what humans experience during their first days, weeks, and months in the world, and ...