It is always interesting that progress is made in the study of the baby's brain, sometimes with discoveries, sometimes confirming what was suspected. One of those studies that analyze and describe the obvious is this that we present today.
Babies are aware of their mistakes and, if they don't get what they expect, they decide to ask for help or try again their goal after 16 months.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States analyzed the behavior adopted by 16-month-old babies when they realized that their toys were not working. The results of this study, published in the journal "Science", revealed that children are skilled enough to find out if they were wrong in achieving a goal.
In addition, research has shown that if children do not get what they expect, they ask for help or try again, in a sample of the tendency of everyone to achieve their goals through different procedures.
So the human being from a very young age is able to identify the origin of the failure and distinguish the cause that motivates something to not work or not occur as expected. For example, a baby, after trying to turn on a device and not get it, argues that he may not be connected to the network or that he is not pressing the correct button to start the ignition.
This conclusion was reached by researchers Laura Schulz, responsible for the study, and Hyowon Gweon, a student of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, who analyzed the behavior adopted by several 16-month-old babies, when they realized that their toy did not work. Different experiments were carried out with toys, the babies being accompanied by their parents.
From 16 months of age, Babies are able to assess on their own if an action fails or not due to their own mistakes or if in said failure circumstances beyond its control have intervened. A sample of how sophisticated your deductions can be at such an early age.
