Human Nature, Alison Gopnik

The article "What every baby knows" is an interview with Alison Gopnik, a professor of cognitive psychology. She studies the developing minds of babies and young children as they grow up, and notice the changes and adaptions they make. She emphasizes that babies are born smart- but not in the way that we'd think. Alison thinks of it more in a way that babies are born with "theories", and over time these theories change. A child is born with a grand amount of knowledge, but not the same type of knowledge that he/she might have once graduated from college. One of her former students, Betty Repacholi, conducted a simple test with children, and determined that a specific aged child can tell your desires by your facial expression when these objects have been presented. I think this article was really informative and set on an interesting perspective.