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Recommended: the importance of evolution

Introduction:

A) Broad discussion of topics: Discuss Kristin's thesis

1. Evolution and understanding of it
Macro vs. Micro
VIST framework
Darwin/Mayr

2. Tools-language
Open vs. Close ended questions
How vs. why questions
Best way of asking to reveal causal framework
-explain causal framework: Essentialism (Gelman), Teleology (Keleman), Bloom, and Theory of Mind
Ultimate Cause (natural)
Why questions
Proximate cause
How questions

3. Children's and adults understanding of biology/evolution/metamorphosis
Evans
Species-proximity to humans
Mayr

4. Natural kinds vs. artifacts

5. Creationist-God...wanted, created, gave, made
Naturalistic-need, adaptations, evolve, growth
Intelligent design- intention, purposeful

B) Rationale for this study

1. Give close-ended questions to younger children so they can understand the broad questions and because they may not be able to ellaborate or communicate well enough.
Hood/Bloom: When children start answering causal questions of parents and when they start asking questions of their own.

C) Hypothesis
(still being established...have to wait until finished coding Kristin's data to predict the results of mine)

Method subjects: 20-25
Age: 5 and 6 years
Gender: 1/2 male and 1/2 female

open-ended questions
-divided into how and why
- questions taken from coding results of previous study done by Krisitn
- analyzed and took the most typical explanations

Present the most frequent of those close-ended questions presented to older age group with 1 explanation per pattern :
4 reasoning patterns: (Will be inserted in paper with actual questions once the data has all been coded and analyzed from Kristin's study)
Questions altered to fit all items
Use item used with older kids to see if they are giving the answers the older kids did.

Procedure
4 parts of the procedure will be given sequentially:

1. Warm-up
9 items (pictures) looking at interacting
Ask child if the card is an animal or a human to see if they understand

2. Card practice agree/disagree face cards

3. Open-ended questions
"how/why do you think..." between subjects footnote Kristin's study

4. Close-ended questions
3 humans, 3 butterflies, 3 frogs, 3 mammals, 3 artifacts order randomly determined without replacement once item is chosen:
They will be told

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