{"pk":27908,"title":"Folk philosophy of mind: Changes in conceptual structure between 4-9y of age","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We explored children’s developing understanding of mentallife using a novel approach to track changes in conceptualstructure from the bottom up by analyzing patterns of men-tal capacity attributions. US children (n=247) evaluated ele-phants, goats, mice, birds, beetles, teddy bears, dolls, robots,and computers on a range of mental capacities, allowing us toassess which attributions “go together” and how these concep-tual connections might develop over early and middle child-hood. Replicating previous studies with adults and older chil-dren, an exploratory factor analysis of older children’s (7-9y)responses revealed a three-way distinction between physiolog-ical abilities (e.g., hunger, smell), social-emotional abilities(e.g., guilt, embarrassment), and perceptual-cognitive abili-ties (e.g., choice, memory), corresponding to traditional no-tions of BODY, HEART, and MIND. Hints of this three-way distinction emerged among younger children (4-6y), butyounger children appeared to perceive markedly stronger con-nections among physiological and social-emotional abilities,while clearly distinguishing both from the MIND.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"mind perception; conceptual change; lay biology; lay psychology; cognitive development"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h13526b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Weisman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""},{"first_name":"Carol","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Dweck","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""},{"first_name":"Ellen","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Markman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27908/galley/17546/download/"}]}