How does a switch work? The relation between adult mechanistic language and children's learning
How does a switch work? The relation between adult mechanistic language and children's learning
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DOI：
10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101221
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发表时间：
2021-01-01
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3
通讯作者：
Corriveau, Kathleen H.
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作者：
Kurkul, Katelyn E.;Castine, Eleanor;Corriveau, Kathleen H.
两项研究探索了包含机械信息的解释如何影响4岁和5岁儿童的后续学习。在研究1(N=56)中，儿童参与了五个阶段的科学任务：(A)探索阶段，(B)父母解释问题，(C)熟悉阶段，(D)新奇扩展阶段，和(E)儿童回忆阶段。父母对包含机械信息的解释的使用预测了孩子在熟悉阶段和新阶段适当地放置更多片段的能力。在研究2(N=)中，孩子们与一个不熟悉的实验者一起工作，并接触到不包括或不包括机械信息的解释。接触机械信息的儿童更有可能在所有阶段适当地概括潜在的概念。总之，这些研究表明，接触机械语言有助于儿童获得新概念的知识。
Two studies explore how explanations that contain mechanistic information can influence 4and 5-year-old children's subsequent learning. In Study 1 (N = 56) children participated in a science task with their parents across five phases: (a) exploration phase, (b) parent explanation questions, (c) familiar phase, (d) novel extension phase, and (e) child recall. Parents' use of explations containing mechanistic information predicted children's ability to appropriately place more pieces in both the familiar and novel phases. In Study 2 (N = 64) children worked with an unfamiliar experimenter and were either exposed to explanations that did or did not include mechanistic information. Children who were exposed to mechanistic information were more likely to appropriately generalize the underlying concept in all phases. Together these studies indicate that exposure to mechanistic language helps children acquire knowledge of novel concepts.