The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures

Autor/inn/en	Medin, Douglas L.; Atran, Scott
Titel	The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures
Quelle	In: Psychological Review, 111 (2004) 4, S.960-983 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-295X
Schlagwörter	Biology; Cognitive Psychology; Classification; Cross Cultural Studies; Folk Culture; Cultural Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biologie; Kognitive Psychologie; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kultureller Unterschied
Abstract	This article describes cross-cultural and developmental research on folk biology: that is, the study of how people conceptualize living kinds. The combination of a conceptual module for biology and cross-cultural comparison brings a new perspective to theories of categorization and reasoning. From the standpoint of cognitive psychology, the authors find that results gathered from standard populations in industrialized societies often fail to generalize to humanity at large. For example, similarity-driven typicality and diversity effects either are not found or pattern differently when one moves beyond undergraduates. From the perspective of folk biology, standard populations may yield misleading results because they represent examples of especially impoverished experience with nature. Certain phenomena are robust across populations, consistent with notions of a core module. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10