The Nature of Preschoolers' Concept of Living and Artificial Objects

Autor/inn/en	Margett, Tessa E.; Witherington, David C.
Titel	The Nature of Preschoolers' Concept of Living and Artificial Objects
Quelle	In: Child Development, 82 (2011) 6, S.2067-2082 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01661.x
Schlagwörter	Testing; Preschool Children; Undergraduate Students; Biology; Attribution Theory; Task Analysis; Concept Formation; Classification; Animals; Plants (Botany); Developmental Stages; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testdurchführung; Testen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Biologie; Aufgabenanalyse; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Pflanze; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	This study investigated preschoolers' living kinds conceptualization by employing an extensive stimulus set and alternate indices of understanding. Thirty-four 3- to 5-year-olds and 36 adult undergraduates completed 3 testing phases involving 4 object classes: plants, animals, mobile, and immobile artifacts. The phases involved inquiries participants generated, what biological properties they attributed and their assignment of "alive" to the 4 classes. The study also focused on preschoolers' conceptual coherence by examining their responding across indices. Results revealed both competence and confusion in preschoolers' living kinds conceptualization relative to adults'. In addition, demonstrations of coherence across testing situations suggest that the beginnings of an abstract, biologically organized framework for understanding of living and nonliving kinds are in place in the preschool period. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10