Conceptual Change in Childhood

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Series Foreword......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Research Methods......Page 24
Conclusions......Page 28
Chapter 1 What Is Alive?......Page 31
A Close Look at the Published Data : Single -Criterion Definitions......Page 36
Experiment 1: A Replication of Laurendeau and Pinard......Page 39
Experiment 2: Removing the Trap of Conscious Criterion Building......Page 52
Conclusions......Page 55
Chapter 2 The Human Body......Page 57
People’s Insides......Page 58
Bodily Functions: The Digestive System......Page 59
Bodily Functions: The Circulatory System......Page 62
Conclusions: Digestion, Circulation, Respiration......Page 63
Bodily Functions: The Nervous System......Page 64
Gender and Gender Constancy......Page 67
Reproduction......Page 70
Death......Page 76
Growth and Personal Identity......Page 81
Conclusions......Page 85
Chapter 3 The Biological Concept Animal......Page 88
Experiment1: Attribution of Animal Properties......Page 93
Experiment 2: Further Constraints on a Model......Page 103
Experiment 3: From Properties to Animals......Page 118
Experiment4: Similarity Judgments......Page 121
Conclusions......Page 125
Chapter 4 The Projection of Spleen (Omentum)......Page 127
Experiment: Patterns of Projection......Page 129
Procedure......Page 130
Results......Page 132
Conclusions......Page 151
Chapter 5 Projection of Properties of Two Objects......Page 156
Experiment 1: Projection of Spleens (Omenta) from Dogs and Bees......Page 158
Experiment 2: Projection of Golgi from Animals and Plants......Page 165
Conclusions......Page 176
Ontologically Basic Categories......Page 178
Animal and Plant Species as Natural Kinds......Page 187
Summary of Results......Page 197
Restructuring in What Sense?......Page 202
Implications for the Description of Cognitive Development......Page 206
Constraints on Induction......Page 210
Conceptual Change......Page 213
Explanations of Development......Page 215
Theory-like Conceptual Structures......Page 216
Appendix......Page 219
Notes......Page 229
References......Page 233
Index......Page 239
Back Cover......Page 248