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        I don't often think about babies, or how they think, but many of the points in each of the he articles we read last week did not come as a big surprise to me.  Through my life I have become familiar with a small mount of knowledge about infants.  With this knowledge I have depicted the mind of a baby as one that is like a sponge; a sponge that absorbs many things that human needs to know to make it, so to speak, in this world.  Among these things are emotions, language and the beginning of the understanding of "right" and "wrong". Seeing as I have constructed an image of babies' minds being sponges, certain things did not surprise me in the articles that were meant to amaze the readers.

        One last thing, unfortunately I cannot remember who it was that brought this up during last weeks discussion, but It was brought to my attention that the methods by which the for some of the findings may not have been too concrete of a way to gauge the babies reaction.  The method of determination of the babies confusion or interest in particular actions by way of seeing how long they stared seems like a method that is not good enough to base scientific findings on in my opinion.