THE EFFECTS OF RAISING ANIMALS ON CHILDRENS BIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
THE EFFECTS OF RAISING ANIMALS ON CHILDRENS BIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
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DOI：
10.1111/j.2044-835x.1990.tb00827.x
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发表时间：
1990-06-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
INAGAKI, K
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作者：
INAGAKI, K
研究对象是 5 岁儿童，通过长期在家饲养金鱼获得的知识类型。养金鱼的孩子不仅获得了更多关于金鱼的事实知识，而且获得了更多的概念知识，他们能够比从未养过任何动物的孩子更合理地预测金鱼的反应，更准确地解释饲养过程。此外，养金鱼的孩子可以利用他们对金鱼的知识作为对不熟悉的“水生”动物（即青蛙）进行类比的来源，并且比其他孩子更容易做出合理的预测，并解释其对新情况的反应。由于金鱼饲养者和非饲养者在有关哺乳动物的事实知识数量或对人类的合理预测率方面没有差异，因此可以得出结论，两组之间发现的差异主要是由于饲养金鱼的具体经验造成的。
The types of knowledge acquired through raising goldfish at home for an extended period were examined for 5-year-olds. Goldfish-raising children acquired a greater amount of not only factual knowledge about goldfish but also conceptual knowledge, from which they could reasonably predict the reactions of goldfish and explain the raising procedures more accurately than children who had never raised any animal. In addition, the goldfish-raising children could use their knowledge about goldfish as the source in making analogies about an unfamiliar ''aquatic'' animal (i.e. a frog), and tended to produce reasonable predictions with some explanations for its reactions to novel situations more often than their counterparts. Since the goldfish-raisers and non-raisers did not differ in amount of factual knowledge about mammals or in rate of reasonable predictions for humans, it is concluded that the differences found between the two groups were primarily due to the specific experience of raising goldfish.