Persistence of the Intuitive Conception of Living Things in Adolescence |
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Authors: | Reuven Babai Rachel Sekal Ruth Stavy |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Science Education, The Constantiner School of Education, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Abstract: | This study investigated whether intuitive, naive conceptions of “living things” based on objects’ mobility (movement = alive)
persist into adolescence and affect 10th graders’ accuracy of responses and reaction times during object classification. Most
of the 58 students classified the test objects correctly as living/nonliving, yet they demonstrated significantly longer reaction
times for classifying plants compared to animals and for classifying dynamic objects compared to static inanimate objects.
Findings indicated that, despite prior learning in biology, the intuitive conception of living things persists up to age 15–16 years,
affecting related reasoning processes. Consideration of these findings may help educators in their decisions about the nature
of examples they use in their classrooms. |
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