Question: Why did you want to work with children?

Caspar Addyman answered on 21 Mar 2011:

Psychologists study people and all people started out as babies. So I decided to start out studying babies. I find it fascinating to study the period in our lives when we are learning the most about the world.. but learning things that we take completely for granted by the time we grow up. (Like being able to walk, to be able to speak and know hundreds of things about how the world works.) If we didn’t study babies we would take lots of these amazing things for granted.

By the time we are grown up so much has happened to us that it is hard to know what caused it all. Imagine if you are good at languages, is this because it is in your genes, was it your home environment, was it because you had some good teachers? maybe it was some combination..

maybe, you were quite good at languages because you came from a home where several different languages were spoken so that made you enjoy language lessons more at school which meant you spent more time and effort learning languages which made you even better. The same could be true with music or sport or almost anything.

Another problem psychologists have when studying adults is that adults either lie too much or try to be too helpful. They try to guess what you want them to say or do and then either try to disguise their answers or try or try to tell you what you want to hear.

We don’t have any of these problems with babies
Which means we can learn a lot from studying them

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