Kids And Questions Research
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Introduction:
A) Broad discussion of topics: Discuss Kristins 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. Childrens and adults understanding of biology/evolution/metamorphosis
Evans
Species-proximity to humans
Mayr
4. Natural kinds vs. artifacts
5. Creationist-Godwanted, 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 Kristins 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 :