Developmental Psychology: Categorization inability

[burnrider2001]

I don't remember being that stupid. Probably because I was stupid!

[jobbieteeth]

This kid needs to see a doctor and FAST!!

We tried this experiment with 12 kids in my psychology class most did not fully pass the test... but there were 2 children who answered with "all" repeatedly, even though we stated there was ONE that was different. Those 2 children were later (a year and a half-ish) diagnosed with brain tumors and subsequently one of them has now sadly passed away. DONT IGNORE THIS!!

[pobhockle]

He speaks like Bruce Lee!

[Funkylordwedge]

Reminds me of Seasame Street's "One of these things, doesn't belong here, one of these things isn't the same." Interesting that they were attempting to aid cognitive development by pointing out forms of categorization.

[Harkz0r]

Hmm. Again, to me this seems to be a level of cognitive abstraction. Of course they're all friggin' different. I think that he doesn't understand what the experimenter means by categorisation. I agree that there are differing stages in development, as I can remember, at least vaguely, being able to see things more 'clearly' as I aged. But I still kinda hold out hope that this guy would be able to do it, if it were explained clearly to him. :P

[Miikaika25]

well he's really smart for a 4 year old, at least he did not call the zebra a cow, just remember that at his age mistakes are welcome as long as he get's it at some point : )

[SharmaDon890]

Person who is taking survey should ask some child type question. That child didnt understand that question.

[onzcouch]

this kid is so cute. he just seems so annoyed that the answers are so obvious.

[babelfsh66]

i was kinda annoyed at first because the question was wrong, childeren take words literally and when you say "different", of course he ll say they are all different in the very literal meaning of the word.

but after he counted them all; "fly", "eat", "eat", "eat" and still not get it... it is very interesting...

[Zantaer]

NO THEY AREN'T ALL DIFFERENT YOU FUCKING RETARD KID.

[mafemure]

@Zantaer He's too young to understand that three of those cards belong to the same category. He looks at them individually, therefore they're all different.

He's just a little kid ... you need to chill.

[Zantaer]

@mafemure And you need to learn about the internet so you don't get trolled.

[mafemure]

@Zantaer lol like I care ... what are you going to troll about anyway??

[babelfsh66]

@mafemure he just trolled about the kid s intelligence.. he was even kind enough to point out he was just trolling. lol. you do need to learn about your internets so you wont get trolled..

[Zantaer]

@mafemure I don't know, but that kid is a fucking idiot.

[arualalways]

im sorry maybe its just because I generally dont like children for more than 10 seconds of them saying like mama and being cute but I would have lost my temper by the time he started counting them :/

[TheBadRobot112]

piaget is my favriet theorist and i have done some of these tests with my children in the nursery

[derman077]

Rebecca Saxe's TEDTalk was enlightening also. The marshmallow test is worth looking up.

[RandomLaura89]

when you are with a child you don't want them to think their wrong! bc then they willfeel unsure about themselves and at this age you don't want them to feel that way!! this is a concept in Developmental Psychology the kid isn't stupid. it can't do that he don't have to mental ability to do this skill yet.

[StEpHsTrAwBeRrYgAl]

yes they are all different, she could have said 'which one is the odd one out' he might have understood better what she ment

[Juefawn]

If any one is experiencing this with their child, prime to the common denominator.

[Juefawn]

That is brainwashing. There aren't 0 when you take them away. The child than makes everything outside of their focus than equal to 0, breeding ignorance. This is just something I think.

In the second she primes, by trying to state what they all are, but doesn't ask, "what can you do with each" which would make him able. You are conditioning him, and any one that does these experiments. The inability, is because of conditioning.

On positive nt: He seems to be "mathematically inclined."

[MTAllenby]

What is weird about this experiment is that if you were to say to a child of this age "go and get some food from the kitchen" they would not come back with a kite. Isn't that categorical thinking?

[Marmitefrog]

I love how he says ''Ill tell you something.. if you take 2 away you have 2 left''.. haha so cute.

[cronin098]

lol "Can you put them in a category?"

What did she expect him to say?

"Madam, by the term 'category' do you mean a group of objects that are similar in a certain way?"

[lygophile]

but it's really just semantics, and that the kid can't guess what your driving at.

he knows three of them are for eating, and one of them is for flying, but he has a very straight forward understanding of the word "different". they're all different, and he's right.

of course, you could ask him which one was of a different CATAGORY, but then i'm pretty sure he simply doesn't have the vocabulary to understand such a word.

[keywolf23]

in a summary. The boy has a different method of categorizing things. His method is out of the box, and somewhat, off topic. But in the end, he is still correct.

[seplrm]

catergorization is not innate, but rather a learned concept through repetition. The trick to successful education is allowing students to repeat their exposure to such concepts. I'd suppose most human intelligence isn't "innate". It's like showing an adult an audit form and saying "Look, this man has an inability to perform audits."

[jpineda4a]

he knows math

[bobbob135]

Does anyone know if children can sort out gender groups? At a very young age children start to follow gender roles. So its not like children at the age of 4 have an inability to sort in case of gender.

[matrixener]

holy crap this is amazing. who created the experiment???? ...i would of never been cable of makin a test to see if children can catergorized or not

[chisaoboy]

First of all, the kid does not understand the word CATEGORY... using that word is insane.

[whatsthemenu]

could someone please help me?

he says lion, bear, zebra and ____ ? (I was not able to understand what the kid said, I'm not an English native speaker)



[kevio74]

@whatsthemenu he said "waggon" for the last one

[Mcpanicfanic]

"Theyre all different" he sounds so adorable when he says that and so matter of factly.

[sillydillydokieo]

@Mcpanicfanic he sounds like a stubborn little bastard. i wonder who had to inform his parents that he is but 2 IQ points shy of being full fledged retarded after these 'tests'.

[chisaoboy]

@sillydillydokieo You've demonstrated that you, too, fit this category.

[saxoo1106]

.. it is said that Piaget's underestimated the skills of children.. it is stil a theory,..the theory would not really apply to all children..

[MakeshiftEstablished]

She did lead him by asking if those two were the same. She should have let him try to figure it out a bit more or repeat the question.

[TheTwill12]

wow, that kid is dumbass !!!! the questions is sooo easy

[violin144000]

I think four year olds can categorize with enough coaching it is not a matter of being four. Once enough language proficiency is achieved which is the ultimate expression of categorizing there should be no problem.

[footballe213]

That's a behaviorist view. The child cannot do it because his brain is not large enough at that age.

[MakeshiftEstablished]

Then do an empirical study that shows that this is possible.

[violin144000]

The kid could of gotten it I think perhaps with a little more coaching. Perhaps he did not know the word category which is an abstract term. I don't have any kids to experiment perhaps some people here can upload some video responses.

[emblemOFbeing]

very cute kid. We must try to understand what he was trying to convey in the first grouping, he perceived from gestalt, just not the one we wanted to him to produce. Very literal answers, and he's not incorrect - they are all different!

[benjaminfrank1in]

fuckin dumbass americans

[JoyeuxLj]

OMG YOUR SOOOOOO MEAN ! lolol

its an inability some young children have. :P

[cerealboxconspiracy]

I find this experiment to be suspicious. The child clearly seems to be struggling with the word "different" rather than directly testing the child's categorization abilities.

[staroflint]

lmao!!

he soo cute!

[benjaminfrank1in]

fukin dumbass americans

[BerryChew]

Your comment just proves how unintelligent you are. Go take a psych class and come back when you've reached adult level intelligence.

[benjaminfrank1in]

I'll have you know I have a A* at A-Level Psychology and I'm currently studying for a PhD in it.

[BerryChew]

Good for you, if that's even true. I guess it must be the etiquette classes where you're lacking... Funny thing is, knowing you may or may not be working towards a PhD doesn't make me feel any different towards your ignorant, hate spewing online behavior. Have a nice life, I'm leaving it at this.

[benjaminfrank1in]

leave it at wah u want u daft slag americans are still fukin dumbasses

[WilgaBeast]

Proper article = an

Obviously lacking a degree in English.

[DannyAces]

I'm not sure this proves an inability to categorize... I mean, it could be nothing, but he did reduce the 4 cards to the animals, then put the wagon on top. It could be nothing, but that's what I got out of it.

Then again, this kid could just be stupid.

[MissLeland27]

It's not stupidity, every child does it and you would have to when you were younger. Go read up on some Jean Piaget.

[DannyAces]

No what I meant is that there's room for error. I'm just using stumble to kick around youtube while I'm bored - I'm a physics major, not psych.

But I thought there was something to her asking what didn't belong and he took the animals and hid them, and chose the wagon and put it on top, as the 1.

Like I said it could be just random.

But fyi- I knew everything the moment I was conceived, and had a full beard by the time I was 3.

[sunsikham]

@MissLeland27

bro. Piaget theory is just a theory. its not a fact bro. so your wrong. not "every" child does it.

[bignastydragon]

@sunsikham

Piaget may not be correct, yet his catogorisation does hold in general.

you may find children of the same age who are able to catogorise, yet they are likely to have passed the stage shown.

the big weakness of Piaget is that it does not account for individual diffreneces and circumstances which can lead to differences in mental capability.

[Raysaku0006]

Hahahahahahhaa... so cute

[kiminokami]

Obviously the wagon is the different one. It is domesticated, while the other animals are wild.

[Johannady]

hahaha!

[dwindle]

Stupid experiment. The kid has no idea what the question is. Lions and bears are not 100% identical, therefore do not fit in the same category. Kids are taught in black and white terms. If the kid had any idea what she was asking, he could figure it out in an instant.

[Dracklen248]

He has some idea, he knows what it is for two things to be alike. What they're trying to show, and it is true, is that the reasoning ability for categorization is something that we learn to do as our brains develop. Kids are great (far better than adults) at memorizing information, but ordering and logical process doesn't develop until later in life.

[Bender711]

well duh the zebra is different. The rest eat people.....

[Sykosis310]

made me literally laugh out loud, nice comment.

[Unloadedx5]

That lady is a jerk. The lion and the bear are both fuzzy and I don't eat fruits dammit!

[Simpo28]

And a wagon does? :P

[twale]

he's a genius!

[originalityisdead18]

I like how, even though he's wrong for demonstration's sake, he's RIGHT.

"which one is different?"

ALL OF THEM! I frikkin bear can not be a zebra, nor can a zebra be a lion...bahaha...

I love this kid.

[infantry031]

@originalityisdead18 seems the test is fluad not the kid haha

[stonemanfoo]

This kid's a dumbass, obviously the bear's the odd card out.

-Stoner

[distillex]

I lol'd

[amyxfx]

i love this video - we got shown it in a lecture..

[MrBaryar]

That kid is fucking stupid

[The1Smart2Guy]

you should kill yourself. . .

[MrBaryar]

DURRRR REALLY LOL homo.

[KonceptzOfKnivez]

this kid is a genius!

[temsa026]

Does the child even know what categories are?

[mehmeh2121]

clearly he doesn't... its a psychology experiment about development. at his age, he still not able to create categories (AKA concepts). Furthermore, he also not yet able to to make COGNITIVE SCHEMAS; which means he cant connect concepts to other concepts..

[BlaakeChicaBoomBoom]

lol the kid is like yelling at her at the end

THERE ALL DIFFERENT YOU STUPID LADY

[Souperlative]

under 6-7 years old , the only categorization is made concerning 1 aspect. For example a 4 years old kid will call "cat" a sheep a lion and a dog because they all have "4 legs".

I think in this example that's shown to us this kid categorizes the cards on the 1 aspect that they are all "different".there's no inclusive or exclusive categorization on the basis of logical reasonning at this age.

[zomgaliens69]

haha at 1:45 he looks at the camera like "this is SO stupid"

[scholgurl]

excuse me, for all of you who have no clue about developmental psych, hush....pre operational children cannot group objects into catergories, the lady did an excellent job with this test...try it yourself on a child under 7

[scholgurl]

he is too cute

[juanturi]

hi Cugel2006, can you make me a favor? i need the name of the original video where com front this part, because i wan buy the complete video or tell me some how i find them. I write from colombia, please forgive my grammar

[pilmusic]

I find it funny because I too always make sure to write good english when writing on the web because I barely speak it. But as I surf the web and particulary 2.0 web pages (forums, chat, blogs), I found out that native english speakers write like total no brainers. This conclusion increased my quality of sleep.

[mahi687]

well we dont learn ENGLISH the way foreigners do....because we grow up speaking it, our system of education does not deem it necessary to teach us the technicalities of the english language with the same scope as in other countries...in other words, we don't need to think about whether what we are saying will make sense or not because we naturally are accustomed to thinking and speaking in english...

[kmukund87]

Categorization needs to be learnt separately for a human and is acquired by human interactions. While identifying the purpose of each object is a natural requirement and comes naturally, categorization is an advanced human technique used for remembering and making more sense out of the information we have. Though a child might know the meaning of the word "categorization", he need not have practiced it and therefore might not be able to perform it

[skelayo]

I think the reason is that he doesnt understand what you mean by "different", if you would say one of them doesnt fall under the same category as the other 3, he would do better.

[alesia1951]

However, when the lady asks him the purpose of each and he responds correctly, that shows that he is not categorizing rather than just not understanding what is different.

[CoNiLa2]

i think he isnt seeing them as simpy 3 things to eat and one thinbg to fly

but every card shows a category in itself for the kid

i believ thats what this Lady wantet to confirm/test

i am not saying if that is actually the fact

i obviously have no clue about psyxhology

[soldu]

yes

[soldu]

why not?

[chetdog]

does everybody have to give me such a hard time over my comment

[billybobthortansbro]

Probably because YOU WERE DOING IT WRONG.

[chetdog]

lion, bear and zebra are animals where as the cart is not an animal

[mellowmark1]

Congratulations.

[billybobthortansbro]

You win!

[Co0lFlame]

good job! ur such a smartie :)

[merrett]

This kid is very clever. He just thinks differently.

My little brother is 5 and very bright, but he can't do simple subtraction like this 4 year old.

[McConsumer]

the lion and bear are both hunters. that's kinda the same

[DontTouchMyTea]

And if you look at their noses, they kinda looked the same.

[cocastar26]

well he did put the animals under each other and the wagon over! that shows some thinking. she should have asked "which ones go together?" same means exactly the same

[lunaticalovegood]

I loooove this test with children xD

[gabyleon]

dont know how some ppl get to this videos...420RonPaul,hurfery. stop drinking, go to read something once in your lives

[vmetalz]

amazing kid... thanks for the video... quite a nice change in between all the reading I gotta do right now...

[ladyxeona]

it is so strange to watch normal kids.

[sosemperme81]

Ciaooo!!

I'm Italian student and I've need a text about this video for my research (my English is so poor!!)... who is my hero? 

Thank you very much, Simone.

[butring]

well the kid is right they are all different.

[ezeqyell]

But we are talking about categorization, if she asks you wich one is different, you will pick the one that belongs to a different category than the others. (The trolley in the case of the animals example)

[RenewableFuel]

@ezeqyell It was a wagon, not a trolley.

[420RonPaul]

lol what a dumb motherfucker

[hurfery]

hes a fuckin retarded baby ... stupid little shit

[sweettooth1001]

he's not stupid. he's a kid, and this is how they develop. This is their reasoning at this age. You would have been exactly the same at this age.

[jalfredl]

ron paul sucks

[gpshaw1987]

You sir are a Jackass, why am I not surprised to see Ron Paul in your screen name, you sir give all Libertarians a bad name

[chiquitabanana420]

this kid rules!!!!!!!!!

[Jeff2469]

This is evidence that this particular 4 yo cannot categorise. Whether this can be generalised or not is questionable. Also if you listen to the answers he gives it's evident the task is not clear to him.

[boxergirl28]

Actually, it's a concept called irreversability, and it is an inability to go back and reason... That's what happens at that stage of development.

I agree with you that it is questionable, but pretty much all children go through this stage... It's part of the development of the mind.

[viviananderson]

He does not understand the question-Jeff is right.

[furrypurry1]

This is NOT evidence that a 4 y/o can't categorize. This is an instance in which the task, as presented, inhibits his performance. 2-1/2 yearolds will sort animals by color over and over.

[tiifae]

colour is a visual clue, but the understanding how to categorize is different.