Where Is the Essence? Developmental Shifts in Children's Beliefs about Internal Features

Autor/inn/en	Newman, George E.; Keil, Frank C.
Titel	Where Is the Essence? Developmental Shifts in Children's Beliefs about Internal Features
Quelle	In: Child Development, 79 (2008) 5, S.1344-1356 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01192.x
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Child Development; Intuition; Adults; Abstract Reasoning; Age Differences; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Kindesentwicklung; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	The present studies investigated children's and adults' intuitive beliefs about the physical nature of essences. Adults and children (ranging in age from 6 to 10 years old) were asked to reason about 2 different ways of determining an unknown object's category: taking a tiny internal sample from any part of the object (distributed view of essence) or taking a sample from one specific region (localized view of essence). Results from 3 studies indicated that adults strongly endorsed the distributed view, and children showed a developmental shift from a localized to distributed view with increasing age. These results suggest that even children go beyond mere placeholder notions of essence, committing to conceptual frameworks of how essences might be physically instantiated. (Contains 3 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10