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>> Nora The idea that intelligence is an entity, an innate entity, is something that I would
love to put the kybosh on. The really important thing is for people to believe that they're
not just born or not born with it. My area of psychology is cognitive development. I've
done work with children as young as 5 months and also with college undergraduates. My approach
to psychology and cognitive development is more to study a particular kind of thinking
and my case mainly spatial thinking. Are two things the same or different if you turn them,
what happens if you fold a part of them or slice through it, what would you see in cross
section? I also do quite a lot of work with toddlers. At that age, they can do much more
interesting things. You can hide something and they can try to find it, but they're also
running all over the place so they may have in mind they want to do something entirely
different, so that can be in some ways more challenging. I really like the Ambler campus.
It's a beautiful piece of property. It's perfect for the Infant Lab. You know, one saying is
play is the work of childhood, that the way that children learn is by playing and that's
the work that they have to do, is to learn. Well, I became a psychology major initially
because I thought I wanted to be a clinical psychologist. I had gotten my Ph.D. at Harvard
and begun to teach at Penn State. I did not like living in the countryside, so I was thrilled
to arrive in Philadelphia. When I first got here, it was largely a commuter school. Since
Temple began to build dorms, it's transformed everything. The student culture is there,
which it never was before, attracting better and better prepared students, so I think now,
it's really quite, quite good.