When Children Ask, “What Is It?” What Do They Want to Know About Artifacts?
When Children Ask, “What Is It?” What Do They Want to Know About Artifacts?
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当孩子们问“这是什么？”时，他们想了解文物的什么？
DOI：
10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00689.x
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Morghan B Holt
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作者：
D. G. Kemler Nelson;Louisa Chan Egan;Morghan B Holt
当孩子们问：“这是什么？”他们是在寻找关于某个东西叫什么或它是什么样的东西的信息吗？为了找到答案，我们让2岁、3岁和4岁的孩子（每个年龄32岁）有机会询问不熟悉的文物。一个模棱两可的问题是用一个名字或功能信息来回答的，这取决于孩子们被分配到的小组。当孩子们被告知物体的名称时，他们倾向于提出更多关于物体的问题，但当他们被告知物体的功能时，他们似乎对答案感到满意。此外，在名称条件下的儿童倾向于在会话过程中用关于功能的问题代替模糊的问题。这些结果表明，儿童的动机，发现什么样的东西新奇的文物，和幼儿一样，成年人，设想的文物种类的功能。
When children ask, “What is it?” are they seeking information about what something is called or what kind of thing it is? To find out, we gave 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds (32 at each age) the opportunity to inquire about unfamiliar artifacts. An ambiguous question was answered with a name or with functional information, depending on the group to which the children were assigned. Children were inclined to follow up with additional questions about the object when they had been told its name, but seemed satisfied with the answer when they had been told the object's function. Moreover, children in the name condition tended to substitute questions about function for ambiguous questions over the course of the session. These results indicate that children are motivated to discover what kinds of things novel artifacts are, and that young children, like adults, conceive of artifact kinds in terms of their functions.
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
GELMAN, SA;MARKMAN, EM
通讯作者：
MARKMAN, EM