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Heyman, Gail D.; Phillips, Ann T.; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognition, 2003
Examined reasoning about physics principles within and across ontological kinds among 5- and 7-year-olds and adults. Found that all age groups tended to appropriately generalize what they learned across ontological kinds. Children assumed that principles learned with reference to one ontological kind were more likely to apply within that kind than…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
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Kloos, Heidi – Cognition, 2007
Young children's naive beliefs about physics are commonly studied as isolated pieces of knowledge. The current paper takes a different approach. It asks whether preschoolers interlink individual beliefs into larger configurations or Gestalts. Such Gestalts bring together knowledge such as how an object's mass relates to its sinking speed, how an…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Young Children, Beliefs, Preschool Children