What Does the Cow Drink? Your quick answer, like most people, was probably "milk" because of the very strong association between cows and milk, even though you are well aware that cows do not drink milk. Similar mistakes also happen at school. You might even have experienced this without even realizing it. For example, in science, children (and some adults!) often keep believing things that seem true but are actually false. When you were young, you may have thought that the sun was moving in circles around the Earth because you noticed that the sun was moving across the sky from east to west during the day. Your brain treated the sun the same way it treated any other moving objects you observed, and you concluded that the sun was circling around the Earth. Later, you learned that you were wrong, and that it is the Earth (along with all the other planets in our solar system) that is moving around the sun.

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