Is there any way of testing if a new born child has any knowledge,?
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They survive by like: instinct at first. they have built-in reflexes
how to suck, cry, etc. Thos are survival skills.
they are inherently intelligent creatures, but
I know what you are saying & I don't think they are getting any smarter...
All the Mozart & other things parents expose their fetuses & infants smarter to, is just making their gaps snap more rapidly & in higher quantities.
i think u shud try n expect miracles out of a new born child as they r miraclez themselves so jst let the child be a child atleast till thy start school or sumthin then test thy're knowledge abit otherwise let the child be a child. xXx
It's all reflex with a newborn...although they do recognise thier parents by smell and hearing.
IF the its your kid then its going to be retarded just like your questions and you
Give each one the SAT test. If they can't answer.toss em out & try again!
no they do not have knowledge, regardless of time.
I think it is safe to say that newborns begin acquiring knowledge from the moment of birth. It is difficult to measure because infants perception and their way of putting together information is so much different from that of adults. The most popular "test" of infants, the Bayley Scales, begins at 1 month. But that reflects an issue of how to measure knowledge below 1 month, not a belief that there is nothing to measure. Yes, for newborns it may be all about instinct and reflex, but if the baby's instinct is to suck and sucking leads to food, knowledge, at some level is acquired. I don't believe there is any evidence that there have been big changes in infant development over the past 50 years. So an infant born 50 years ago would probably be quite similar to an infant born today.
Prior to birth, a limited number of brain neurons and neuron connections develop whilst the unborn child is in the womb. These neurons / their connections allow the unborn child to experience discomfort, some pain and sounds. The unborn child does not have the neuron "wiring" required for awareness. This means that the newborn cannot, in any meaningful way, know about its womb experiences. Womb experiences are retained at the very edge of awareness making them virtually useless. But the reason we like music so much is because its rhythms are similar to our mother's heartbeat that we heard in her womb.
With very limited neurons / neuron connections, the unborn child lacks the wherewithal to attain anything we could call "knowledge". Its difficult to imagine any sort of test for newborn "knowledge", but if such tests were around 5000 years ago, 50 years ago or today, they would be tests for something that just isn't there.
People say all sorts of things about how far back they can remember. Such things aren't worth saying if they fly in the face of modern neuroscience.
A Psychologist might be able to tell you.
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