Name: 智慧與文化 (Intelligence and Culture)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:29:40.000Z
Duration: 3 min 51 s
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>> The Aborigines of Australia have survived the trackless

To do so they have developed extraordinary visual spatial

skills, a feature of the right hemisphere.

and evolution changed the way they think?

Aboriginal children do not perform as well

as white Australian children on conventional verbal tests.

thought the tests might be ignoring the Aborigines

>> The children I've found know a great deal more than I do

and a great deal more than most white Australian people.

They take for granted that we possess most

of the knowledge they have, and we don't.

They think that a sense of direction is built

into everybody's instinct, and also the same thing applies

to all their knowledge about the wildlife of their region.

of their knowledge is special and it is very much so.

that Aboriginal children use their visual

and spatial memories more than white children.

The task? To remember the positions of a set

for verbally oriented children to remember

because natural objects are not as easily described

Kearins used both natural and manmade objects.

She can take as long as she likes to put them back.

Now I'll show you, they're almost all in the right places.

I've been testing aboriginal children between the ages

and they always perform better than white Australian children

They perform at about the, about three years ahead

So that an Aboriginal child of about seven years would perform

about as well as a 10 year old white Australian child.

Not quite as well, but it's about a three year difference.

They don't hurry and put a few back and then slow down.

They seem to perform at the same rate all the time

and they also don't mutter or mumble which a lot

of white Australian children have done while they were doing

They fix to learn the names hoping that that would help them

>> The two groups of children use different strategies

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