Experience and cultural models matter: Placing firm limits on childhood anthropocentrism

Sandra Waxman; Douglas Medin

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Experience and cultural models matter: Placing firm limits on childhood anthropocentrism

Sandra Waxman^*, Douglas Medin

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This paper builds on Hatano and Inagaki's pioneering work on the role of experience and cultural models in children's biological reasoning. We use a category-based induction task to consider how experience and cultural models shape rural and urban children's patterns of biological reasoning. We discuss the implications of these findings for developmental theory and educational practice.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	23-30
Number of pages	8
Journal	Human Development
Volume	50
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000097681
State	Published - Feb 2007

Keywords

Anthropocentrism
Biological concepts
Cognitive development
Culture
Experience
Language development

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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