Conceptual Change in Childhood (MIT Press Series in Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)

Ch.1. What Is Alive? -- Ch.2. The Human Body -- Ch.3. The Biological Concept Animal -- Ch. 4. The Projection Of Spleen (omentum) -- Ch.5. Projection Of Properties Of Two Objects -- Ch.6. Matters Of Ontology -- Ch.7. Conclusions. Susan Carey. A Bradford Book. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [217]-222. Front Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 9 Series Foreword......Page 13 Acknowledgments......Page 15 Introduction......Page 17 Research Methods......Page 24 Conclusions......Page 28 Chapter 1 What Is Alive?......Page 31 A Close Look at the Published Data : Single -Criterion Definitions......Page 36 Experiment 1: A Replication of Laurendeau and Pinard......Page 39 Experiment 2: Removing the Trap of Conscious Criterion Building......Page 52 Conclusions......Page 55 Chapter 2 The Human Body......Page 57 People’s Insides......Page 58 Bodily Functions: The Digestive System......Page 59 Bodily Functions: The Circulatory System......Page 62 Conclusions: Digestion, Circulation, Respiration......Page 63 Bodily Functions: The Nervous System......Page 64 Gender and Gender Constancy......Page 67 Reproduction......Page 70 Death......Page 76 Growth and Personal Identity......Page 81 Conclusions......Page 85 Chapter 3 The Biological Concept Animal......Page 88 Experiment1: Attribution of Animal Properties......Page 93 Experiment 2: Further Constraints on a Model......Page 103 Experiment 3: From Properties to Animals......Page 118 Experiment4: Similarity Judgments......Page 121 Conclusions......Page 125 Chapter 4 The Projection of Spleen (Omentum)......Page 127 Experiment: Patterns of Projection......Page 129 Procedure......Page 130 Results......Page 132 Conclusions......Page 151 Chapter 5 Projection of Properties of Two Objects......Page 156 Experiment 1: Projection of Spleens (Omenta) from Dogs and Bees......Page 158 Experiment 2: Projection of Golgi from Animals and Plants......Page 165 Conclusions......Page 176 Ontologically Basic Categories......Page 178 Animal and Plant Species as Natural Kinds......Page 187 Summary of Results......Page 197 Restructuring in What Sense?......Page 202 Implications for the Description of Cognitive Development......Page 206 Constraints on Induction......Page 210 Conceptual Change......Page 213 Explanations of Development......Page 215 Theory-like Conceptual Structures......Page 216 Appendix......Page 219 Notes......Page 229 References......Page 233 Index......Page 239 Back Cover......Page 248