Presenting young children with vast numbers of discrete sense impressions would not augment the natural development of intelligence¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1915 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The literal doctrine of presenting infants with as many sense impressions as possible is a manifest absurdity that would not increase natural intelligence development. → G. M. W 1915

Evidence¶

G. M. W 1915¶

G. M. W. (1915). The Problem of Sense Training. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. VI, No. 9. https://worldcat.org/search?q=Journal+of+Educational+Psychology+Volume+VI+1915

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument in the editorial: even if extremists were right that many brain cells could be developed this way, the author argues the net result would not augment intelligence. No empirical evidence is offered for this claim.

"To take the doctrine so literally as to advocate the presentation to the infant of as many as possible of the thousands of sense impressions themselves (the 11,000 tones, the 35,000 colors, the four tastes, etc.) is a manifest absurdity"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• General Cognitive Ability — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

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