Babies are Surprisingly Smart

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Before they can walk or talk, infants start to do all sorts of cognitive feats that seem awfully smart for a baby.
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@francoislacombe9071 5 лет назад

"...suggesting that they are aware of the phenomenon of gravity." Five months old babies are smarter than flat earthers.

@VariantAEC 5 лет назад

Underrated comment right there.

@edmund-osborne 5 лет назад

And everyone who lived before Newton.

@wizardtim8573 5 лет назад

This needed to be established?

@SmartAlec86 5 лет назад

@@edmund-osborne There's a difference between knowing the theory of how something works, and being aware of its existence. People have been aware of the existence of the phenomenon of gravity for as long as humans have existed. However, Newton was the one who actually began thinking about how it works.

@BearerOfLightSonOfGod 5 лет назад

Francois Lacombe Your face is beautiful.

@emilygilbeyful 5 лет назад

My 2 year old niece has a surprisingly good sense of direction and memory. We live in the countryside and drove past my dad's workplace which is remote and miles away and she said that's where grandad works and there is a swimming pool there. She was 17 months old when we last went there and went to the swimming pool there!

@IceMetalPunk 5 лет назад

My mom's response to this? "I guess all my babies were dumb because all you ever did was lay there and poop." Thanks, Mom. Love you, too.

@flodanilats1329 5 лет назад

Luckily, Mom has gone trough the same stage unless she spawned as a mother

@CharmEng89 5 лет назад

actually when you were within hours of being born, you were already able to distinguish your mother's face from other women's. SO THERE MOM baby psychology is actually pretty cool

@user-og6ol2im7v 5 лет назад

I poop too

@LaceyAnn 3 года назад

Moms, amiright?

@NoMoreForeignWars 5 лет назад

So smart that fetus can recognize its mothers language sound while still in the womb.

@mokimon5079 5 лет назад

what if all these peer reviewed studies accidentally teach babies that balls can roll up hills and it messes them up forever

@mokimon5079 5 лет назад

Matthew Conway i think thats Gergley, same

@Starfloofle 5 лет назад

Thankfully I'm pretty sure repeated exposure to the contrary quickly dismisses erroneous conclusions like that. ...Unfortunately that's also the same reason why children without anyone positive in their life don't learn to ignore their parents' bad behaviors due to overexposure...

@mokimon5079 5 лет назад

TAmari my thing was a joke but yeah

@Lala47362 5 лет назад

My little cousin is not a baby anymore (he’s 3) but I still get so blown away by how clever toddlers can be. They live in Sri Lanka and I’m the only one in the family who doesn’t speak sinhala, everyone else is bilingual (except my cousin as he’s 3). He doesn’t get taught any English at the moment by his parents or in school, but he somehow figured that I only speak English, when we went there on holiday, and started talking to me in English. So obviously as he’s a toddler, the only thing he really says in general is “that’s mine” “I don’t want to” etc, and he started saying that to me in English when I took his seat. But like how?? I’m also surrounded by people speaking sinhala and I never picked it up, I still have no idea how to say “my chair” in sinhala. I’m so jealous lol as a language student I wish I’d been taught more languages when I was young because it’s sooo much harder now trying to learn it from a book...

@SSchithFoo 5 лет назад

They create that association somehow. My friend in Australia whoes also Sinhala has a kid who by 2 figured out "white people" mainly speak English. he speaks Sinhala at home.

@Lala47362 5 лет назад

SSchithFoo it’s crazy!! once I visited some friends in spain and I mainly spoke English and my friend mainly Spanish. And her cousin was only 3 or 4 and somehow spoke to both of us at the same time, switching between English and Spanish. That’s even hard for adult interpreters!

@CritterKeeper01 2 года назад

Learning a language from a book *is* hard! Easier to learn through real-world use, which is probably how he learned a few phrases of English!

@hochibamabinladenhusainefe8191 5 лет назад

I can confirm at a very very young age I knew how to annoy people without words or actions or really anyrhing.

@VariantAEC 5 лет назад

I would expect as much. Your parents named you accordingly I see... LOL

@BriefBrainSnacks 5 лет назад

Wonder if all the swift head growth can result in headaches.

@beth8775 5 лет назад

That just might explain crying when nothing else does.

@TheMauriki 5 лет назад

Not headaches but the crying is indeed related. Babys have growth spurts where they learn new things. They go from nootion control to "Oh I got hands!" and trying to use them in a couple of days. All that change in their brain is frightening, so when your naby is fussy and nothing seems to help check if she has learnt a new ability.

@therabbithat 5 лет назад

growing pains? No wonder they cry all the time

@adamwishneusky 5 лет назад

Babies are amazing learning machines

@sk8rdman 5 лет назад

Infants and toddlers deserve a lot more respect than they tend to get.

@gigglysamentz2021 5 лет назад

Ha ha ha! The brain grows at "break-neck" speed XD

@Master_Therion 5 лет назад

I've heard babies called "little scientists" because they learn about the world around them. Wait, does that mean science is mere child's play?

@zetharic1610 5 лет назад

You try too hard...

@freshoutofcrabs 5 лет назад

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact. - Carl Sagan

@TheARN44 5 лет назад

yes

@SKS87100 5 лет назад

mErE

@Master_Therion 5 лет назад

@@freshoutofcrabs Oh. That must be where I heard that. I love Carl Sagan. Thanks for the quote ^_^

@Delluvian 5 лет назад

That's a pretty awesome t-shirt. Would a baby understand that? I think not. Babies: 0, me: 1

@km1dash6 5 лет назад

In less than 5 years, a child basically becomes fluent in their native language. I've studied Spanish for over 10 years and I know how to ask where the bathroom is.

@laurennewell9265 5 лет назад

kylerm18 might be more of a case of submersing yourself, I bet if you moved to Mexico or some other Spanish speaking country you would learn the language way quicker. Still is pretty cool though, babies in 5 years even being bilingual or trilingual 🤯🤯

@jauxro 5 лет назад

It'd probably help if you tried to watch movies in Spanish or listen to Spanish music lol

@km1dash6 5 лет назад

For context, I live in southern California. The majority of people around me spoke Spanish. I listen to music in Spanish and watch a lot of TV shows and movies in Spanish. I understand the language pretty well, and can pronounce words well. But learning a language is difficult when you're an adult compared to when you're a kid. Children up to age 5 are building their neural networks at a faster rate than adults do. So while it only takes a child a few years to fluently speak a language, most adults will take much longer to attain a similar level.

@KevinSheppard 5 лет назад

As a relatively new dad, this video was quite interesting.

@drizzlingrose 5 лет назад

0:53 babys and small childen stareing is one of the most unsetteling things i know of. " WHY U LOOKING AT ME LIL ANA!?!?!?"

@nafrost2787 5 лет назад

Babies are also better at quantum mechanics than einstein

@mindsmack3650 5 лет назад

I really started noticing this when I started seeing 1 year olds grab a phone press the power button slide to the app they want to use and then use app like an adult

@200odd300 5 лет назад

that's not healthy..

@Tyler-bp4md 5 лет назад

its not unhealthy either

@ARitzCracker 5 лет назад

@@200odd300 excessively using smartphones is how the world works, nowadays. Babies are just going to pick up on that and do what everyone around them already does.

@200odd300 5 лет назад

@@Tyler-bp4md A 1 y/o should not be using a phone, they should be playing with legos or whatever else, *physical* objects. Not staring at LEDs.

@ARitzCracker 5 лет назад

@@200odd300 Hey, multi-billion dollar advertising and mobile-gaming industries would love to show you wrong. Welcome to the 21st century

@Mindcircus79 5 лет назад

This is so true. I’ve had some of the most interesting and complex conversations with my friend’s 18-month-old baby. Looking forward to when she will be able to actually talk, though, because gibberish is not so easy to understand at times.

@abhaysharma9317 5 лет назад

Still feel bad for those little creatures because all that smartness wouldn't worth anything once they would face the challenges of being a teenager.

@Brainstorm69 5 лет назад

I highly recommend anything by Paul Bloom if you are curious about developmental psychology. He's one of my favorite scientists.

@LaceyAnn 3 года назад

A few years ago I asked my mom what house it was we lived at where I fell down those weird cement basement stairs. and she about turned white as a ghost and asked how the hell I remembered that because I wasn't even 2yrs old yet when that happened. That was creepy for me too, when she said that I also turned white as a ghost, lol.

@jancal9285 5 лет назад

That first baby looked just like this host, even down to the same eyebrows.

@autumnakins7640 5 лет назад

I had to go back to see! You are right! Omg! How cuuuuute!

@daxliniere 5 лет назад

This is so fantastic. Thanks for collating & packaging all those studies!

@LuinTathren 5 лет назад

Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing!

@aliceignis 5 лет назад

When my niece was about 3 years old (I think) I've tried to explain her, that the earth is round (I showed her her house on google earth and zoomed out step by step till the hole globe was visable). It didn't work. Now she is 10 and comprehends the fact, that the earth is round. But I wish I could have determined the exact age when she was able to comprehend that.

@TheErudite21 5 лет назад

This is Incredibly fascinating!! Im the oldest but was young when my siblings grew up, but now I can fully observe my baby cousin doing stuff like this and marvel at the psychological feats going on in his little brain! Might have to do some fun experiments with him.

@DataCab1e 5 лет назад

It turns out we all owe a big apology to the Baby Geniuses films.

@CritterKeeper01 2 года назад

14 months isn't an infant, that's a toddler!

@nafrost2787 5 лет назад

Babies watch SciShow.

@InfansDeAter 5 лет назад

Fascinating! I'm preparing to have a baby in all the wrong ways.

@Italktocarrots 5 лет назад

I had my baby the day this was uploaded, thank you guys for keeping me sane while in hospital! And in the best way - learning about how my baby will grow ☺️

@AtlantideVFX 5 лет назад

I've heard "eating poop" instead of "eat & poop". Oups...

@Meleeman011 5 лет назад

Huh, ig I wasn't most babies. I didn't pick up social cues that well until my teens

@deliveryman7001 5 лет назад

Absolutely Tantalizing! I honestly don't know how I was as a baby. but at one point I drank raid.. poison control was called.. turns out I was still fine since it wasn't toxic or anything, told to drink lots of milk. I must've been pretty dumb.

@thatjkoguy 5 лет назад

I had to watch this video twice, because the first time through I couldn't stop thinking about where to find that Shark Side shirt Brit wears.

@michaelgarner6988 5 лет назад

LOVE this one! More dev. psych!

@WhoElseButZane 5 лет назад

Really? That's weird that a human would exhibit intelligence. It's not like we're known for that

@nicolaiveliki1409 5 лет назад

Sorry, I was totally drawin into your Shark Side T

@haharmageddontv6581 5 лет назад

'growing at breakneck speeds' *how come their necks aren't broken yet*

@haharmageddontv6581 5 лет назад

jk i like babies

@dprahn02 5 лет назад

Being a sub I of course love the videos... but also.. great t-shirt!

@Babarudra 5 лет назад

I'd swear that said "Raspberries are Surprisingly Smart."

@tahsintabassums 5 лет назад

Well that's depressive Now I feel dumber than a baby 🙄

@connorm5478 5 лет назад

I wonder like to see a show on the old “Dating Game”.

@gigglysamentz2021 5 лет назад

Does anyone else remember not having a theory of mind ?

@RangerRuby 5 лет назад

Is it just me or are babies in glasses *really* cute!

@CharmEng89 5 лет назад

please do more baby psychology videos!

@evaristegalois6282 5 лет назад

1:44 “5 plus 5 should equal more than 5” Also, 2 plus 2 is 4, minus 1 that’s 3 _quick maths_

@Noah-wx7fm 5 лет назад

So are you implying that this quote is from a baby

@IceMetalPunk 5 лет назад

Mafs*

@TheNefari 5 лет назад

Baby zombies getting in my heads...

@ciarrawaffle6669 5 лет назад

Really interesting

@bobbystrong6849 5 лет назад

Tell that to New York

@Idellle 5 лет назад

My sister 1 year old baby fed my rabbit hay. And she thinks everyone looks at baby videos or dog videos on their phone

@SmartAlec86 5 лет назад

The thing about observing people help others up a hill as opposed to pushing them down it, that's not as impressive as you may think. Morality is in fact instinctive. So even a toddler can recognize that helping others is more beneficial than harming others.

@discipleoferis549 5 лет назад

I don't think it's /supposed/ to be impressive so much as informative. It's observations/experiments like this that are why we KNOW morality is at least partially instinctive.

@novastar3990 5 лет назад

Babies are so cute.

@therabbithat 5 лет назад

Babies look longer at things they haven't previously experienced, it's quite a leap to say they understand gravity. I guess I'm saying babies are dumb

@miriam3848 5 лет назад

Dat t-shirt though

@gravijta936 5 лет назад

Don't look at the recommended feed

@Rotem_S 5 лет назад

That 1:40 study is not that believable on it's own: the babies may have stared longer because there were more objects. they should've done the same but then taking five objects back out and THEN removing the square and test whether the babies still watched longer.

@Brandonhayhew 5 лет назад

They are infant, their new to the world, and their bodies are fragile.

@murphygreen8484 5 лет назад

Where can we get that shirt?

@raspberrytaegi 5 лет назад

cool!

@culwin 5 лет назад

Whatever, I'm smarter than most babies.

@kingalex29339 5 лет назад

This would’ve been nice to post last week 😂 This is what my psych test was on yesterday

@henrythegreatamerican8136 5 лет назад

I got a lot of baby fat around my stomach. Does that make me smart?

@laurenmilton3693 5 лет назад

Can you explain borderline personality disorder?

@anindiansocialist1932 5 лет назад

come to the shark side

@johnyliltoe 5 лет назад

Rugrats is all real!

@ChristopherWanha 5 лет назад

Doesn't this contradict the idea that babies do not have a concept of object permanence?

@belotiisnotreal2539 5 лет назад

Oh they stare they smart

@mazinbajalan4334 5 лет назад

What about 23 year old babies?

@cakefromkorea1507 5 лет назад

@marcusrosales3344 5 лет назад

None of this is the least bit surprising... Some of it does seem evolutionary though rather than what I'd call "intelligence".

@NewMessage 5 лет назад

So... Family Guy is a documentary. Got it.

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 лет назад

Babies are cute 🐥

@TheTenthBlueJay 5 лет назад

Correct

@marisu9765 5 лет назад

I'm fully aware this isn't popular opinion, but I've always thought they're really ugly, not cute at all. Even when I was a little kid and my friends had baby dolls I couldn't imagine why they would play with that, they look hideous to me. That's not to say I'm insensitive to all babies, I think baby animals are adorable... But humans? Ew.

@bongobongo3661 5 лет назад

@@marisu9765 you have a problem

@historycenter4011 5 лет назад

So, Boss Baby was a true story... Oof

@sortedsortof3474 5 лет назад

This actually seemed a bit too basic to me. Maybe you were intending to only touch on deductive reasoning because, I believe, all the learning going on just to figure out how to talk, how to coordinate your muscles, facial recognition, and the rest would overwhelm most of us as adults. Every moment is a non-stop learning experience. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

@furairesu2380 5 лет назад

She looks like r63 Elon Musk.

@Rolletti21 5 лет назад

This info should be sent to the lawmakers in New York who declared its okay to abort a baby during it's last term. Poor little, already developed babies. 😭😭😭

@beth8775 5 лет назад

Or you could actually read what the law says. Terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks is only permissable if the fetus is not viable (will not be able to survive outside the uterus) or the mother's life is in danger. News flash: if mom dies so does the baby.

@Rolletti21 5 лет назад

@@beth8775 murder

@beth8775 5 лет назад

@@Rolletti21 Hatemongering, science denying, misogynistic troll. 1. The baby will suffer and die within minutes (hours at most) of being born. 2. Both of them will die, or you can actually preserve a life. Neither of those is murder. You want to prolong the suffering of an entire family, or murder a woman - possibly leaving other children to grow up motherless - for the sake of a child that died anyway.

@safir2241 5 лет назад

They play Fortnite

@Graveyardgirl33 5 лет назад

I hope I'm pretty early.

@tawon1984 5 лет назад

She looks like she just rolled out of bed to film this video. Not a bad thing as I like the natural look 😍

@deshawn2326 5 лет назад

Was thinking the exact same thing. 😬😬

@christelheadington1136 5 лет назад

More likely hat hair, it's COLD up there.

@romkoppel5302 5 лет назад

I am ashamed of the fact that I was once a baby. Disgusting creatures. Still a nice video though.

@wyattmiller9539 5 лет назад

3nd, haha dabbed on Nah seriously nice vid

@cscjb 5 лет назад

Now make a video about what animals can do at birth. Babies really are not that impressive, their responses are generic to any stimuli that is normal on earth. Humans literally are the one species that have the most defenseless and stupid infants out of any animal in the mammalian species due to their dumbass heads having to fit through the vaginal opening as well as not be crushed and deformed by the pelvis (if any possibility). More species on earth, MANY different animals are considerably smarter at birth, born knowing instinctual traits much like you're pointing out instinctual traits of a human in this video. You can tell how smart a kid is generally on how fast they start picking up language and start performing motor and oratory skills along with enunciation and pronunciation of words.

@catbot3116 5 лет назад

First

@BlueCrashFigurineHoldingWumpa 5 лет назад

Whatever you say, Satan

@SgtSupaman 5 лет назад

This is ridiculous. No one should be surprised by any of this, unless they've never spent more than two seconds with a child in their entire lives. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that babies learn how things work by observing how things work. If they were actually smart, they would figure out on their own that using their head to flip a switch is stupid regardless of who else is doing it that way. It is always funny to me when "scientists" talk about how "smart" babies or animals are, but that is only when you compare them to something that is virtually brain dead.