Silva Francisco J, Page Dana M, Silva Kathleen M
Department of Psychology, University of Redlands, P.O. Box 3080, 1200 East Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373-0999, USA.
Learn Behav. 2005 Feb;33(1):47-58. doi: 10.3758/bf03196049.
In three experiments, we examined humans' folk physics (i.e., a naturally occurring and spontaneous understanding of the physical world), using variations of problems used to study chimpanzees' folk physics. Presented with trap-tube problems in two experiments, adult humans showed an unnecessary bias to insert a stick into the end of the tube farthest from the reward to push it out the other end. When presented with trap-table problems with ineffective trapping holes, people unnecessarily avoided the side with the hole. The similarity of humans' and chimpanzees' behavior on these tasks highlights methodological and conceptual problems in studies of chimpanzees' folk physics and suggests alternative explanations for their behavior.
在三项实验中，我们利用研究黑猩猩民间物理学时所使用问题的变体，对人类的民间物理学（即对物理世界自然产生且自发的理解）进行了研究。在两项实验中，向成年人类呈现陷阱管问题时，他们表现出一种不必要的倾向，即将棍子插入离奖励最远的管子一端，以便将奖励从另一端推出。当向人们呈现带有无效陷阱孔的陷阱桌问题时，他们会不必要地避开有洞的那一侧。人类和黑猩猩在这些任务上行为的相似性凸显了黑猩猩民间物理学研究中的方法和概念问题，并为它们的行为提供了其他解释。
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