在幼儿中解决因果关系问题
Mariel K Goddu1, Eunice Yiu2, Alison Gopnik2
1Department of Psychology, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley 94704, USA; Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Palo Alto 94305, USA; Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany; Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities: Human Abilities, Berlin 10969, Germany.
幼儿早就表现出因果关系推理. 幼儿和学龄前儿童可以推断抽象的因果规则,并应用它们来解决新问题,将推理与因果学习联系起来.
科学领域:
- 认知发展 认知发展
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 因果推理因果推理
背景情况:
- 了解因果关系推理是认知发展的关键.
- 幼儿时期是发展解决问题的技能的关键时期.
研究的目的:
- 调查幼儿的因果关系推理能力.
- 确定幼儿和学龄前儿童是否可以使用关系推理来设计新的干预措施并实现新的结果.
主要方法:
- 两项实验与24-30个月大的幼儿和三岁的学龄前儿童进行.
- 孩子们观察到一个机械不透明的机器改变物体大小.
- 然后,孩子们被要求使用机器解决新的问题.
主要成果:
- 幼儿和学龄前儿童迅速推断出关系因果关系的规则.
- 孩子们成功地应用了推断的规则来解决与陌生对象的新问题.
- 表演展示了抽象因果关系的概括.
结论:
- 幼儿在关系推理方面表现出令人惊的早期能力.
- 复杂的因果推理在童年早期就显而易见.
- 研究结果表明,早期的关系推理和积极的因果学习之间存在着密切的联系.
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