Department of Cognitive Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Cognitive Science Centre, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Department of Cognitive Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2021 Oct;220:103415. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103415. Epub 2021 Sep 10.
Although other animals can make simple tools, the expanded and complex material culture of humans is unprecedented in the animal kingdom. Tool making is a slow and late-developing ability in humans, and preschool children find making tools to solve problems very challenging. This difficulty in tool making might be related to the lack of familiarity with the tools and may be overcome by children's long term perceptual-motor knowledge. Thus, in this study, the effect of tool familiarity on tool making was investigated with a task in which 5-to-6-year-old children (n = 75) were asked to remove a small bucket from a vertical tube. The results show that children are better at tool making if the tool and its relation to the task are familiar to them (e.g., soda straw). Moreover, we also replicated the finding that hierarchical complexity and tool making were significantly related. Results are discussed in light of the ideomotor approach.
虽然其他动物也可以制作简单的工具，但人类扩展和复杂的物质文化在动物王国中是前所未有的。制造工具是人类缓慢和后来才发展起来的能力，学龄前儿童发现制作工具来解决问题非常具有挑战性。这种制造工具的困难可能与对工具的不熟悉有关，而通过儿童长期的感知运动知识可能会克服这一困难。因此，在这项研究中，通过一项任务研究了工具熟悉度对工具制作的影响，在该任务中，要求 5 至 6 岁的儿童（n=75）将一个小桶从垂直管中取出。结果表明，如果儿童熟悉工具及其与任务的关系（例如，苏打吸管），他们更擅长制作工具。此外，我们还复制了层级复杂性和工具制作之间存在显著关系的发现。研究结果从动作意象方法的角度进行了讨论。
