British and American children's preferences for teleo-functional explanations of the natural world.
British and American children's preferences for teleo-functional explanations of the natural world.
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英国和美国儿童对自然世界的远程功能解释的偏好。
DOI：
10.1016/s0010-0277(03)00024-6
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发表时间：
2003
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Kelemen,Deborah
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作者：
Kelemen,Deborah
目的-功能解释通过参照对象的目的来解释对象。它们是成年人解释能力的一个基本方面。他们也发挥了重要作用，在儿童的推理，虽然先前的研究结果表明，与成人相比，幼儿广泛扩展目的论的解释以外的文物（如椅子）和生物特性（如眼睛）的属性，非生活的自然现象（如云，岩石）。本研究扩展了早期的工作与美国儿童探讨英国儿童的应用目的论的解释。其动机是，虽然英国和美国在文化上接近全球背景所能提供的最小配对，但两国的宗教信仰存在差异，因此英国儿童可能不太倾向于支持基于目的的解释。结果表明，年轻的英国儿童也拥有一个混杂的目的论，虽然他们在不同的目的，他们的属性。其他研究结果包括使用美国儿童的修改任务复制早期效果。
Teleological-functional explanations account for objects by reference to their purpose. They are a fundamental aspect of adults' explanatory repertoire. They also play a significant role in children's reasoning although prior findings indicate that, in contrast to adults, young children broadly extend teleological explanation beyond artifacts (e.g. chairs) and biological properties (e.g. eyes) to the properties of non-living natural phenomena (e.g. clouds, rocks). The present study extends earlier work with American children to explore British children's application of teleological explanation. The motivation is that while Britain and America are, culturally, as close to a minimal pair as the global context affords, there are differences in the religiosity of the two nations such that British children might be less inclined to endorse purpose-based explanation. Results reveal that young British children also possess a promiscuous teleology although they differ in the kinds of purposes that they attribute. Additional findings include a replication of earlier effects using a modified task with young American children.