Kids

420 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

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

Show More
Related

  • Separation Anxiety and Attachment in Infants and Toddlers

    2903 Words  | 6 Pages

    Slater, A., and Muir, D., (1998). The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd.

    Read More

  • Chimpanzee's and Tool Use

    1332 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Tool use is rare in animals, and the chimpanzees stand out as the most proficient tool users besides humans” (Boesh, Boesch-Achermann18). Some debate has taken place between researchers regarding how these chimpanzees learn to use these tools and whether or not there is a difference between wild chimps and captive chimp’s tool use. Some theories say that chimps do not actively teach or are taught, but rather learn by observation, trial, and error; as stated in the article Thinking Like a Chimpanzee by Jon Cohen. This article also suggests that some reaserchers do believe that chimps do poses the capability to be taught and understand what they are learning.

    Read More

  • Battle Of Algiers Analysis

    1503 Words  | 4 Pages

    This act of terrorism often violates human rights and is thought to increase power within the state, though again, violence. Human rights are the rights of all people to be free from abuses such as torture/imprisonment for their political beliefs and to enjoy certain minimum economic and social protections (Pevehouse and Goldstein, 2016, 7.5). Every semi-decent human being should be concerned, or at least interested in preserving human rights within their own nation, but sadly no state has a perfect human rights record. Even today in the United States many of our own people face racism, ethnic diversity, and extreme poverty. One might argue that violating human rights in the form of torture to extract information is worse than feeling discriminated against. But we have to think of the root of the issue for needing to torture individual- discrimination. Col. Mathieu’s main goal was to dismantle the National Liberation Front by “cutting off the head of the

    Read More

  • A Comparison of Primate and Dolphin Intelligence

    2324 Words  | 5 Pages

    The study of non-human primates and dolphins has lead to many profound questions as to the nature of intelligence. And thought the answers provided to date have been disputed, the questions are not any less worth of being asked. But in order to get beyond the disputes, researchers must be willing to shed there antrocentric view of intelligence and accept that it is an trait which can evolve like any other trait. When this is done it may be finally possible to recognize the remarkable abilities that some many people seem to find in animals as evidence of animal intelligence not lesser human intelligence.

    Read More

  • Primate Intelligence: Apes

    1577 Words  | 4 Pages

    Apes have over and over again surpassed other primates in comprehension tests carried out in the laboratory. They are capable of reacting to stimuli in an appropriate manner. Researchers have measured intelligence in primates in a number of situations in an effort to determine the level of cognition these primates possess. Russon and Begun, researchers who have explored ape intelligence state, “In the physical domain, great apes do use tools in ways that require their grade of cognition but they devise equally complex manual techniques and solve equally complex spatial problems” (Russon and Begun 2004). Apes have the abilit...

    Read More

  • the false consensus effect

    746 Words  | 2 Pages

    mean for each question. Keep a record of the responses for each person who participates.

    Read More

  • Transgender Acceptance: Fighting Discrimination in Society

    830 Words  | 2 Pages

    Transsexuals see themselves as an actual man or women. The don’t realized that no matter what they do to change their sex, some in society will still see them as that man or women their were born as . For society, the topic of reverse gender is complex with various emotions. Moreover, individuals frequently marked them as misfits, not understanding the genuine essence of being man or woman. There are many arguments that state, psychological disorders do not change a person gender, no matter how trapped they might seem, as

    Read More

  • Overview of the Self-Determination Theory

    1599 Words  | 4 Pages

    As children grow and develop, their actions become more self-directed and less subject to outside regulation by others (Poulsen, et al., 2006, p....

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast Jean Piaget's Contribution To Play Therapy

    1843 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the second stage, preoperational, the child begins to exemplify the world with words and images that show increased representative thinking. They improve at symbolic thought, though they can’t yet reason.

    Read More

  • Gender Dysphoria In Children, Adolescents and Adults

    1986 Words  | 4 Pages

    According to the DSM-5, gender dysphoria is “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender” (American Psychological Association, 2013). Even though studies have shown that not every individual suffers from distress, it is still possible that an individual might suffers from distress due to the hormonal treatment or surgical procedure(s). In the past, gender dysphoria has been referred to as “gender identity”. However, gender identity, by the DSM-IV definition is “a category of social identity and refers to an individual’s identification as male, female, or occasionally, some category other than male or female” (American Psychological Association, 2000). Individuals that identify themselves with another gender tend to change their sex, which has been proven to be a hard and long process.

    Read More

  • The Theories of Piaget and Kohlberg

    1064 Words  | 3 Pages

    The child has a hard time realizing that though there are many other people and things in their world, none of them are more important than the child himself. The child believes that his point of view is the only point of view of the world. This is caused by his inability to put himself in someone’s else’s shoes (Smith). The concrete operational period, spanning between the ages of 7 and 11, is marked by the onset of logic in the young mind. The child is able to mentally manipulate objects and events.

    Read More

  • Ethical Issues Behind Transgender Surgery

    1302 Words  | 3 Pages

    I believe that Gender Identity Disorder or gender dysphoria is a complicated physiological disorder that can be affected by the variety of things including the chemical makeup from person to person. We should treat the disorder as such and respect the people suffering from the disorder enough to try to solve the underlying cause, not just the outward symptom. I believe that this disorder can be treated through therapy and hormone therapy to establish hormonal and chemical balance within someone. I view gender reassignment surgery, unless for the benefit of the physical health of the patient, to be a complete waste of medical resources and to be an idea that has been glorified through the media as not only acceptable but as courageous; while the drawbacks of the surgery and the poor results are downplayed or ignored. I also believe that by making gender reassignments available we are “playing god” and taking physical alteration too far. Taking a physically healthy person and performing an entire change of identity because he or she is uncomfortable with the way he or she looks teaches people to be intolerant of problems instead of pushing through them and supports fighting the very way we were created. Lastly, with such alarming rates of people who ultimately were unhappy with their physical appearance and emotional state following the surgery, there doesn’t seem to be a countervailing benefit to

    Read More

  • A Comparison Between Freud and Erikson

    1947 Words  | 4 Pages

    Shaffer, D., Kipp, K., Wood, E., & Willoughby, T. (2010). Developmental psychology childhood and adolescence. (3rd ed.). USA: Thomson Wadsworth

    Read More

  • Psychologist Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development And Language Acquisition

    1329 Words  | 3 Pages

    During the formal operations stage children have difficulty reasoning in terms of complex verbal problems, however this stage is characterised by hypothetical and scientific reasoning; children think logically and still show lingering egocentrism (Blake and Pope, 2008).

    Read More

  • Teacher Ethics

    1534 Words  | 4 Pages

    When testing a child, make sure that the testing method used is appropriate for that child. For example, if giving a test that relies on visual aids to administer the test, it is important that the teacher is certain that all the children have good enough vision to clearly see the aids. When assessing young children in particular, it is important to look for more than simply right or wrong. An in-depth look is necessary to see what the children really know before giving them a poor grade. Children’s work needs to be critiqued in more than one way to be sure that they really do or don‘t understand.... ...

    Read More

More about Kids

Open Document