Talk:Preferential looking
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Excised bit about McCloskey edit
The text:
- These beliefs are said to be foundational — they are refined throughout development, but they are remarkably resistant to erasure, even when experience and science education contradicts them. For example, Michael McCloskey[1] et al.[1] found that most people expect that a ball rolling out of a curved tube will adopt a curved trajectory[2]. McCloskey found the same result in undergraduate physics students.
- Found in Bloom et al., "Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science".
Omphaloscope talk 16:58, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
References
- ^ McCloskey, M., Caramazza, A. and Green, B. (1980) "Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces: Naïve Beliefs About the Motion of Objects". Science 5: Vol. 210. no. 4474, pp. 1139 - 1141.
- ^ Even though, as Isaac Newton explained, objects are subject to the law of inertia: they move in straight lines of constant speed unless acted upon by another force.
Excised Pigeon Section edit
The section referred to the "well-documented and often referred to example of Du Plaus (1972)." A search for this article/citation came up empty. Moreover the discussion here is of preferential feeding and playing.
Extended example edit
The well-documented and often referred to example of Du Plaus (1972) involved a child of tender years playing with three differently colored pigeons. The child would almost always (93% of the time) spend more time feeding and playing with the brown pigeon, and substantially less time doing those same activities with the red and yellow pigeons. Du Plaus suggested that this was the result of children being genetically coded to prefer brown pigeons over red and yellow pigeons.