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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
卷 80, 期 2, 页码 461-481出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01272.x
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD036043-09A1, R01 HD036043, HD-36043, R01 HD036043-07, R01 HD036043-08, R01 HD036043-06, R56 HD036043] Funding Source: Medline
Two studies (N = 456) compared the development of concepts of animal species and human gender, using a switched-at-birth reasoning task. Younger children (5- and 6-year-olds) treated animal species and human gender as equivalent; they made similar levels of category-based inferences and endorsed similar explanations for development in these 2 domains. In contrast, 10-year-olds and adults treated gender and species concepts as distinct from one another. They viewed gender-linked behavioral properties as open to environmental influence and endorsed environment-based mechanisms to explain gender development. At all ages, children demonstrated differentiated reasoning about physical and behavioral properties, although this differentiation became more stable with age. The role of psychological essentialism in guiding conceptual development is discussed.
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