دورية أكاديمية
Early differentiation of causal mechanisms appropriate to biological and nonbiological kinds.
العنوان: | Early differentiation of causal mechanisms appropriate to biological and nonbiological kinds. |
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المؤلفون: | Springer K; Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0442., Keil FC |
المصدر: | Child development [Child Dev] 1991 Aug; Vol. 62 (4), pp. 767-81. |
نوع المنشور: | Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
اللغة: | English |
بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0372725 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0009-3920 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00093920 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Child Dev Subsets: MEDLINE |
أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers Original Publication: [Chicago, etc.] : Published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development [etc.] |
مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Cognition* , Psychology, Child* , Thinking*, Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Male |
مستخلص: | Although Piaget characterized young children as precausal until about 7-8 years of age, recent work indicates that preschoolers do honor fundamental principles of causality. This literature has mainly focused on general principles invoked in reasoning about mechanical events. By contrast, the present study examined whether children differentiate between the causal mechanisms appropriate for different conceptual domains. The results of 3 preliminary investigations and 1 main experiment suggested that preschoolers prefer natural mechanisms for color inheritance in biological kinds, particularly when causal substrates resemble their consequences. By contrast, the same children recognized the importance of human intentions in producing the color of an artifact, and also judged that mechanical mechanisms serve to mediate between intentions and outcomes. The results are relevant to recent studies on the development of biological thought, and overall suggest that early causal reasoning reflects both domain-specific and domain-general principles. |
معلومات مُعتمدة: | R01 HD023922 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD023922-13 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS; 1-R01-HD23922 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS |
تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 19910801 Date Completed: 19911226 Latest Revision: 20161122 |
رمز التحديث: | 20221208 |
PMID: | 1935342 |
قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
تدمد: | 0009-3920 |
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