University of Missouri at Columbia, USA.
Psicothema. 2010 Feb;22(1):35-40.
Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of how children's evolved learning and motivational biases influences their ability and motivation to learn in school. Evolved learning and motivational biases are organized around the domains of folk psychology, folk biology, and folk physics. There are also domain-general systems that comprise attentional control, working memory, and problem-solving competence that can be used to act on and modify folk systems. The combination supports the creation of cultural and academic innovations and children's learning of these evolutionarily novel innovations in school. The basic premises and principles of evolutionary educational psychology are described, and their potential utility is illustrated by discussion of the relation between folk psychology and children's learning to read and the relation between evolved motivational dispositions and children's academic motivation.
进化教育心理学是研究儿童进化学习和动机偏见如何影响他们在学校学习的能力和动机。进化学习和动机偏见是围绕民间心理学、民间生物学和民间物理学等领域组织起来的。还有一些领域通用系统，包括注意力控制、工作记忆和解决问题的能力，可以用来作用于和修改民间系统。这些系统的结合支持了文化和学术创新的创造，以及儿童在学校学习这些具有进化新颖性的创新。本文描述了进化教育心理学的基本前提和原则，并通过讨论民间心理学与儿童阅读学习的关系以及进化动机倾向与儿童学业动机的关系来说明其潜在的应用价值。
