1997
DOI: 10.2307/1131668
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Abstract: Three studies examined young children's understanding of the biologically causal role of birth in determining animal properties and species kind identity. In Studies 1 and 2, 4- to 7-year-olds and adults were told stories in which a baby was born to an animal of one species (e.g., a horse) but was adopted and raised by an animal of another species (e.g., a cow). In Study 1, children were asked to judge which parent the baby would resemble on a set of physical properties and beliefs. The majority of children we… Show more

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“…It is not until they are 7 or 8 that they understand that some forms of parentage provide for inheritance and others do not (Solomon et al 1996). These researchers would argue that those early developmental biases like essentialism are there, but until a child has certain knowledge-in this case, an understanding of birth (Johnson and Solomon 1997)-they think that essence can be passed by being a parent, regardless of how one came to be a parent.…”
Section: Prior Knowledge As a Barrier To Conceptual Changementioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is not until they are 7 or 8 that they understand that some forms of parentage provide for inheritance and others do not (Solomon et al 1996). These researchers would argue that those early developmental biases like essentialism are there, but until a child has certain knowledge-in this case, an understanding of birth (Johnson and Solomon 1997)-they think that essence can be passed by being a parent, regardless of how one came to be a parent.…”
Section: Prior Knowledge As a Barrier To Conceptual Changementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Carey, 1985). In contrast, Johnson and Solomon (1997) found that 5-year-olds did not distinguish between familiar physical properties and non-physical properties in inferring whether babies would share properties with their biological or adoptive parents (Taylor et al, 2009). …”
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confidence: 91%
“…Early studies report that before the age of 5 years, young children show little in the way of biologically specific knowledge (e.g., Carey, 1985;Johnson & Solomon, 1997;Solomon, Johnson, Zaitchik, & Carey, 1996). Instead, they reason about the living world anthropocentrically, extending their biological knowledge about humans to other living things on the basis of their behavioral similarity to humans.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%