Article de revue: ID no. (ISBN etc.):  15677095 Clé de citation BibTeX:  Atran2001
Atran, S., Medin, D., Lynch, E., Vapnarsky, V., Ucan Ek', E., & Sousa, P. (2001). Folkbiology doesn't come from folkpsychology: Evidence from yukatek maya in cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Cognition & Culture, 1(1), p. p3–42.
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Catégories: Culture, Full text, Représentations naives
Descripteurs: Biology, KNOWLEDGE, MEXICO, QUINTANA Roo (Mexico : State), RURAL population, Theory of
Auteurs: Atran, Lynch, Medin, Sousa, Ucan Ek', Vapnarsky
Collection: Journal of Cognition & Culture

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Résumé
Nearly all psychological research on basic cognitive processes of category formation and reasoning uses sample populations associated with large research institutions in technologically-advanced societies. Lopsided attention to a select participant pool risks biasing interpretation, no matter how large the sample or how statistically reliable the results. The experiments in this article address this limitation. Earlier research with urban-USA children suggests that biological concepts are (1) thoroughly enmeshed with their notions of naive psychology, and (2) strikingly human-centered. Thus, if children are to develop a causally appropriate model of biology, in which humans are seen as simply one animal among many, they must undergo fundamental conceptual change. Such change supposedly occurs between 7 and 10 years of age, when the human-centered view is discarded. The experiments reported here with Yukatek Maya speakers challenge the empirical generality and theoretical importance o
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