Keil Frank C.
Yale University, 06520 8249, New Haven, CT, USA
Trends Cogn Sci. 2003 Aug;7(8):368-373. doi: 10.1016/s1364-6613(03)00158-x.
The rise of appeals to intuitive theories in many areas of cognitive science must cope with a powerful fact. People understand the workings of the world around them in far less detail than they think. This illusion of knowledge depth has been uncovered in a series of recent studies and is caused by several distinctive properties of explanatory understanding not found in other forms of knowledge. Other experimental work has shown that people do have skeletal frameworks of expectations that constrain richer ad hoc theory construction on the fly. These frameworks are supplemented by an ability to evaluate and rely on the division of cognitive labour in one's culture, an ability shown to be present even in young children.
在认知科学的许多领域，诉诸直觉理论的现象日益增多，这必须应对一个有力的事实。人们对周围世界运作方式的理解，远比他们认为的要粗略得多。这种知识深度的错觉在最近一系列研究中被揭示出来，它是由解释性理解的几个独特属性造成的，而这些属性在其他知识形式中并不存在。其他实验工作表明，人们确实拥有期望的框架，这些框架会在即时构建更丰富的临时理论时起到约束作用。这些框架还通过一种评估并依赖自身文化中认知劳动分工的能力得到补充，研究表明这种能力即使在幼儿身上也存在。
