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Medin, Douglas; Waxman, Sandra; Woodring, Jennie; Washinawatok, Karen – Cognitive Development, 2010
We consider young children's construals of biological phenomena and the forces that shape them, using Carey's (1985) category-based induction task that demonstrated anthropocentric reasoning in young urban children. Follow-up studies (including our own) have questioned the generality of her results, but they have employed quite different…
Descriptors: American Indians, Beliefs, Children, Urban Youth