Children's Thoughts on the Origin of Species: A Study of Explanatory Coherence
Children's Thoughts on the Origin of Species: A Study of Explanatory Coherence
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儿童对物种起源的思考：解释连贯性研究
DOI：
10.1207/s15516709cog2102_2
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发表时间：
1997
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通讯作者：
R. Wiers
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作者：
A. Samarapungavan;R. Wiers
这篇论文介绍了一项研究的结果，该研究考察了儿童对物种形成的看法。两组小学生，9岁和12岁，使用半结构问卷进行了访谈。结果表明，几个孩子用一致的解释框架来解释物种形成现象，这种解释框架非常类似于早期希腊或文艺复兴时期生物学中本质主义理论的变体。这些框架的核心信念限制了为各种生物学问题产生的解决方案的类型。
This paper presents the results of a study which examined children's ideas about speciation. Two groups of elementary school students, 9-year-olds and 12-year-olds, were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. The results indicate that several children explain the phenomena of speciation in terms of consistent explanatory frameworks that strongly resemble either early Greek or renaissance variants of Essentialist theories in biology. The core beliefs of such frameworks constrain the types of solutions that are generated for a variety of biological problems.