Preschoolers'Development Of Biological Causal Cognition---Understanding Of The Human Noninvolvement Principle

There is a heated question in cognitive development research on preschoolers? development of naive theory of biology, the core of which is preschoolers? development of biological causal cognition. The present study examines the development of 4 years old children biological causal cognition .The study focuses on how children come to understand the human non-involvement principle which postulates that humans play no role in the creations of the living kinds? properties .We will ask children some questions .For example, why the ears of rabbit are long. And then let the children select an explanation which is considered to be correct among the provided alternatives .The children will be asked why they choose the explanation. The present study will give some data for preschoolers?development of naive theory of biology. The results are following: I. Young children are not strictly animistic. 2. The development that the children understand the human non-involvement principle grow with age. Many six-aged children can show some understanding of this principle by being sensitive to the distinction between artifacts and natural kinds. 3. There is difference on preschoolers?development of biological causal cognitive, since they show different performance on different domains. 4. children may have some knowledge about category.