Once infants begin moving about in the world, they engage in a process of trial and error, by which they find out how much risk they can take to reap a given amount of reward. Every experience adds to the body of knowledge and shapes future behavior. Children constantly test and sample their environment and themselves, taking risks that give big rewards without too much exposure. It's a delicate, and often beautiful, balancing act.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Children constantly test and sample their environment
Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival discusses adaptation. Page 60.
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