Childrens's Theory

For chapter 9, the section that i found most interesting was the children's theory. This section is about how children knowledge develops and that children do not only learn words and ideas, they learn theories. We learned that a child purpose is whatever they observe and so the first theory to describe this is theory-theory. Theory-theory is the idea that children attempts to explain whatever they hear and see. Children seeks for reason and cause, they do this by asking questions and look for a purpose in everything. Some questions that they ask are, "Why does it rain?", "Why is your hair black?", or "Why is my brother bad?", these are some questions that gathered in the text on page 244. Children around the age 3 are more likely to  to ask these question and also, imitate others as they are still learning. The other theory that researchers looked at is theory of minds. Theory of mind is the human mental process, it is a person's theory of what people might be thinking and this process beings in children that are about 4 years old.