Children's sensitivity to circular explanations
Children's sensitivity to circular explanations
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jecp.2007.10.007
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发表时间：
2008-06-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Keil, Frank C.
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作者：
Baum, Laura A.;Danovitch, Judith H.;Keil, Frank C.
评价解释质量的能力是儿童智力发展的重要组成部分。在结构上，例如当它们是圆形的时候，它们可能是错误的。一个循环的解释重申了这个问题，就好像它是一个解释，而不是提供任何新的信息。两个实验（N = 77）考察了儿童的偏好时，面对圆形和非圆形的解释。结果表明，偏好的非循环的解释是存在的，虽然在一个脆弱的形式，由5或6岁，它出现了强劲的10岁。因此，在小学阶段，根据结构理由评估解释质量的能力似乎发展迅速。(C)2007年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
The ability to evaluate the quality of explanations is an essential part of children's intellectual growth. Explanations can be faulty in structural ways such as when they are circular. A circular explanation reiterates the question as if it were an explanation rather than providing any new information. Two experiments (N = 77) examined children's preferences when faced with circular and noncircular explanations. The results demonstrate that a preference for noncircular explanations is present, albeit in a fragile form, by 5 or 6 years of age and that it appears robustly by 10 years of age. Thus, the ability to evaluate the quality of explanations based on structural grounds appears to develop rapidly during the elementary school years. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.