Child Animism: Situational Influences and Individual Differences

Berzonsky, Michael D.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1988.10532159

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“…The idea that associating the life with motion is brought about by the animistic thinking during early childhood, was first suggested by Piaget (1929). Although there were studies which suggested that individual differences could exist related to animism (Berzonsky, 1974(Berzonsky, , 1987Klingensmith, 1953), the results indicated that moving nonliving objects could be regarded as alive (Dolgin & Behrend, 1984;Lucas et al, 1979) and in fact the idea of all the moving things were alive existed (Elkind, 1991). Watts and Bentley (1991) arguing that science teachers use animistic and anthropomorphic explanations in describing some topics, refer to the possible reasons of observing such ideas in students.…”

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Are Animals ‘More Alive’ than Plants? Animistic-Anthropocentric Construction of Life Concept

Yörek

Şahin

Aydın

2009

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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This study investigated the characteristics students use in attributing value to and classifying the living things; the relational construction of the life concepts and the living things and the place of human in this construction. Participants were first-year high school students from seven schools in Izmir (a large western city in Turkey). An open-ended conceptual understanding test was developed and administered to students. Semistructured interview forms were applied to students and biology teachers, one from each school; and this provided additional data to clarify ambiguous points in students' responses to the conceptual test. Results revealed that students constructed the life concept by associating it predominantly with 'human'. The most frequently associated concept to the life concept was found to be motion. Students tended to use their own classification criteria instead of biological classification. Generally, we noticed classifications in the form of 'human-animal-plant'

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Are Animals ‘More Alive’ than Plants? Animistic-Anthropocentric Construction of Life Concept

Yörek

Şahin

Aydın

2009

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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“…According to our literature survey, it was observed that the cognitive construction of aliveness concept was closely associated with anthropocentrism and animism [ 13 – 19 , 22 , 24 , 31 , 32 , 39 , 55 ]. The results obtained from this study appeared to be consistent with the literature.…”

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Using Self-Organizing Neural Network Map Combined with Ward’s Clustering Algorithm for Visualization of Students’ Cognitive Structural Models about Aliveness Concept

Yörek

Uğulu

Aydın

2016

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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We propose an approach to clustering and visualization of students' cognitive structural models. We use the self-organizing map (SOM) combined with Ward's clustering to conduct cluster analysis. In the study carried out on 100 subjects, a conceptual understanding test consisting of open-ended questions was used as a data collection tool. The results of analyses indicated that students constructed the aliveness concept by associating it predominantly with human. Motion appeared as the most frequently associated term with the aliveness concept. The results suggest that the aliveness concept has been constructed using anthropocentric and animistic cognitive structures. In the next step, we used the data obtained from the conceptual understanding test for training the SOM. Consequently, we propose a visualization method about cognitive structure of the aliveness concept.

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Piagetian Theory and the Psychogenetic Development of Humankind Throughout History. Towards a General Theory of the Human Being

Oesterdiekhoff

2024

Integr. psych. behav.

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Child Animism: Situational Influences and Individual Differences

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Are Animals ‘More Alive’ than Plants? Animistic-Anthropocentric Construction of Life Concept

Are Animals ‘More Alive’ than Plants? Animistic-Anthropocentric Construction of Life Concept

Using Self-Organizing Neural Network Map Combined with Ward’s Clustering Algorithm for Visualization of Students’ Cognitive Structural Models about Aliveness Concept

Piagetian Theory and the Psychogenetic Development of Humankind Throughout History. Towards a General Theory of the Human Being

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