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All babies are born with some natural smarts, but youngsters learn more about the world when this innate intelligence is _(15)_, cognitive psychologists Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson discovered in a study published recently in the journal Science.
The researchers took babies who could not yet talk through four experiments to prove their theory. They presented the babies with situations they could predict, as well as some that were unexpected, and (16)__ their reactions.
Early childhood is an important developmental period in a person's life because infant brains quickly absorb and process reams of information. A small child will pick up a foreign language easier and faster than a teenager or an adult will. What is so exciting about this research is that how much, at such a young age, children are processing, and problem-solving and figuring out.
What the Hopkins psychologists discovered about the babies is no different from the learning process of adults. Scientists, for instance, who think more intently, run more experiments and try to develop new theories when they run across an unusual or unexpected finding.
One way researchers studied the children was by using a ball and a wall. They rolled the ball down a ramp and toward the wall. In one trial, the ball hit the wall as a baby would naturally expect. _(17)__, the ball passed through a hidden door in the wall, sparking the babies' inquisitiveness.
The response by the infants was not_(18)__ or automatic, Stahl said, but a contemplative attempt to figure out what happened.
The findings show that when confronted with _(19), babies learn about the object better, explore the object more and come up with their own hypothesis for why the objectbehaved in a certain way.
【題組】15.
(A) boosted with nutrients
(B) confronted with challenge
(C) infused with insecurity
(D) stimulated by leverage
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