Until the age of 8, children are good but little involved in solving a common puzzle
In Aesop's fables, a thirsty crow who wants to drink from a pitcher must first raise the water level, and for that he throws pebbles into the pitcher. In real life, the black-capped raven can perform the same task. But how smart is he really? Researchers challenged crows and children with tasks similar to the one in the parable. By the time the children reached the age of eight, their level of performance was comparable to that of the ravens. The results of the study were published in July in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
In one of the tests, place the prize in a tube filled with water or sawdust. About half of the birds needed a few attempts to learn that if you throw stones into the liquid, but not into the sawdust, you can raise the reward and get it. When four- to seven-year-old children were faced with a similar problem, they learned the same way, although faster than the birds and needed about five trials to understand that the prize in the water tank could be won. The older the children are the faster they learn and after the age of eight they solved the puzzle for the first time.
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As you show in your verbal ability and spelling level you were probably really at the peak of your mental ability at age 3
really?? And I was sure that as they grow they become less intelligent
You updated me!!
Why are they not told that the children who were used for the experiment underwent severe mental abuse??
Some of them cried and begged to be given the prize, others went into permanent mental distress due to the failures!!
pure shame!!! Enough for experiments on innocent children!!!