Effects of Keeping Animals as Pets on Children's Concepts of Vertebrates and Invertebrates

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High School Students’ Attitudes Towards Spiders: A cross‐cultural comparison (2010, background): “It was repeatedly found that spiders are only rarely kept as pets (Prokop, Prokop, & Tunnicliffe, 2008 ; Prokop, Ozel, & Usak, 2009 ).”
What Plants and Animals Do Early Childhood and Primary Students’ Name? Where Do They See Them? (2011, unknown): “Additionally, the direct interactions children have with classroom pets have been found to influence chil- dren’s ideas concerning animals (Prokop et al. 2007, 2008).”
"Disgusting" Animals: Primary School Children's Attitudes and Myths of Bats and Spiders (2008, background): “Moreover, surveys on children‟s pets-keeping activities showed that keeping spiders is rather occasional (Kidd and Kidd, 1985; Prokop, Prokop, and Tunnicliffe, 2008 ), so direct experiences with spiders are also questionable.”
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Student Attitudes toward Snakes (2009, methodology): “Interestingly, Prokop, Kubiatko, and Fancovicova (2008) and Prokop, Fancovicova, and Kubiatko (2009) , using a similar approach, reported correlations between attitude and knowledge about r = 0.30 and more.”