ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2004, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (3): 379-386.

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Children’s Understanding of Biological Goal-Directed Action

Qing Sulan,Fang Fuxi   

  1. The Key Lab of Mental Healthy, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100101
  • Received:2003-12-28 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2004-05-15 Published:2004-05-15
  • Contact: Fang Fuxi

Abstract: Goal-directed action is a basic trait of biology, which is also an important standard for identifying whether the entity is alive. There are three viewpoints about preschooler’s distinguishing living things from non-living things through goal-directed movement, namely, able, unable or only able to understand animals’ goal-directed action except plants’. According to goal-directed action, some researches about how children understand people’s, animals’ and plants’ goal-directed action are introduced in this essay. Researches about preschooler how to attribute goal-directed action of unfamiliar things are also introduced. Furthermore, previous researches are evaluated and some questions remaining to be answered in the future are put forward.

Key words: goal-directed action, naï, ve biology, causal explanation

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