凯斯中心概念结构理论的初步验证

A prelminary verification of the Case’s theory of central conceptual structure

本研究通过对昆明市3-11岁汉族儿童进行跨文化比较研究,以期对凯斯的中心概念结构理论进行验证.结果发现:(1)儿童在社会认知和科学推理两个领域的推理过程中考虑数量因素的能力发展,均表现出随年龄增长而提高.(2)儿童在以上两个领域的能力发展,基本证实了凯斯提出的四个发展阶段的存在.(3)儿童在以上两个领域的能力发展,出现了某些年龄段发展速度不均衡现象.(4)儿童在社会认知领域的推理过程中考虑数量因素的能力发展,基本证实凯斯理论的文化普遍性.

The present study is to verify the Case's theory of central conceptual structure by means of the cross-cultural research as for the Han nationality children from 3 to 11 years old in Kunming city. The results showed as follows:(1)Children's ability to consider quantitative factors in the reasoning process of both the social cognition and the scientific reasoning develops as they grow up.(2)There are significant age differences among the four age groups children.(3)The developmental rate shows the high correlation between the two domains in some of the age groups. The others don't.(4)In the social cognition domain, the cultural universality of the Case's theory between China and America is basically verified.