摘要
一、目的跨文化的心理学作为心理学的一个分支来说是比较新的。虽然在本世纪初就有人从事过这方面的研究,但只是到六十年代从跨文化观点系统地论证心理学的争论才真正为人们所接受。在儿童心理发展理论中,首先接触到的一个带根本性的问题即遗传与环境的关系。关于这个问题,越来越多的心理学家从跨文化的观点加以研究。尽管辩证唯物主义已经指出遗传为心理发展提供了物质前提,环境和教育在儿童心理发展中起着决定作用,但是,环境特别是文化教育在儿童认知发展中如何起作用?民族差异对儿童认知的发展又有什么影响?这些问题都需要作具体的调查和研究。本文从云南实际出发开始对上述问题作初步的探索。
The purpose of this experiment is tostudy the influence of culture、nationa-lity and language on children's cognitivedevelopment.the subjects include 540children from five different natienality,residing in various part of yunnan pro-vince,their age ranging between 5to11.Seven items of“piagetain”concepts in-cluding conservation,class inclusion avdseriation were experimented.The resultsshow that children with different culturalbackgrounds acquire the conservation concept at different ages due to the differ-ences in their education and culture. With children who come from differentnationalities but have the similar culturalbackground,there is no significant diff-errence in acquiring the conservationconcept.And the difference in speechproficiency of children among the dffe-rent nationalities no marked inflecenceon their acquiring the conservation con-cept.
