Young Children's Conception of the Biological World

By K. Inagaki, Giyoo Hatano. 2006

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Conceptual Change and Evolutionary Biology: A Developmental Analysis (2008, background): “Researchers hypothesize that along with essentialist reasoning, teleological reasoning forms the basis of our everyday naive biology (Medin & Atran, 2004), and appears early in childhood (Inagaki & Hatano, 2002; 2006).”
The vernacular concept of innateness (2009, background): “…that is inherited by 2 (See, particularly, Carey, 1985; Keil, 1989; Atran, 1990; Medin and Atran, 1999, 2004; Astuti, Solomon, and Carey, 2004; Inagaki and Hatano, 2006) 3 Some have challenged the claim that postulating a belief in causal essences was necessary to explain these phenomena…”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, methodology): “Table 8.1 Features and Cues for Throwing (adopted from Knudson & Morrison, 1996)”
The role of intuitive heuristics in students' thinking: Ranking chemical substances (2010, background): “…authors have detected a variety of implicit assumptions that children and students seem to have about the properties and behavior of entities and processes in the physical and the biological worlds (Baillargeon, 2008; diSessa, 1993; Inagaki & Hatano, 2006; Taber, 1998, 2003; Talanquer, 2006, 2009).”