建构抑或天赋——儿童心理理论研究的元理论困境与出路

Construction or Innateness——on the difficult position and way out for metatheory of chlidren’s theory of mind

儿童心理理论作为发展心理学的热点研究领域,近20年来呈现出蓬勃的发展趋势。随着研究的深入,其研究方法与理论模式都面临着进一步的整合。在有关儿童心理理论来源的假设上,理论论、模仿论与模块论出现了根本分歧,前两者关注后天经验的建构作用,后者强调先天心理模块与机制的内源性作用。为促进儿童心理理论研究的发展,我们需要超越建构与天赋之争,相互借鉴研究范式与成果,以澄清或假设出一种更为合理的、更具包涉力的解释机制。

Theory of mind, as a hotspot of current development psychology, has a spur in recent 20 years. With deeper research, the research model and the theory model confront with more integration, especially, the predicament encountered by the metatheory of theory of mind as the core problem of integration. This paper tried to clarify the relationships among the models metatheory, notion of the concept and the condition of the research, holding that the argument on construction and innateness of theory of mind make...