After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?

IF 5.1 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL Child Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-03-24 DOI:10.1111/cdep.12451
Bruce S. Rawlings
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A decade ago, now-seminal work showed that children are strikingly unskilled at simple tool innovation. Since then, a surge of research has replicated these findings across diverse cultures, which has stimulated evocative yet unanswered questions. Humans are celebrated among the animal kingdom for our proclivity to create and use tools and have the most complex and diverse technology on earth. Our capacity for tool use has altered our ecological environments irrevocably. How can we achieve so much, yet tool innovation be such a difficult and late-developing skill for children? In this article, I briefly summarize what we know about the development of tool innovation, then discuss five outstanding questions in the field. With a focus on different empirical and theoretical perspectives, I argue that addressing these questions is crucial for understanding fully the ontogeny of one of humans’ most notable skills.

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经过十年的工具创新,接下来会发生什么?
十年前,一项开创性的研究表明,儿童在简单的工具创新方面非常不熟练。从那以后,大量的研究在不同的文化中重复了这些发现,这引发了一些令人回味但尚未解答的问题。在动物王国中,人类以创造和使用工具的倾向而闻名,并拥有地球上最复杂、最多样化的技术。我们使用工具的能力不可逆转地改变了我们的生态环境。我们怎么能取得这么大的成就,而工具创新对孩子们来说是一项困难且发展迟缓的技能?在本文中,我简要总结了我们对工具创新发展的了解,然后讨论了该领域的五个突出问题。通过对不同经验和理论观点的关注,我认为解决这些问题对于充分理解人类最显著的技能之一的个体发生至关重要。
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Child Development Perspectives
Child Development Perspectives PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
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期刊介绍: Child Development Perspectives" mission is to provide accessible, synthetic reports that summarize emerging trends or conclusions within various domains of developmental research, and to encourage multidisciplinary and international dialogue on a variety of topics in the developmental sciences. Articles in the journal will include reviews, commentary, and groups of papers on a targeted issue. Manuscripts presenting new empirical data are not appropriate for this journal. Articles will be obtained through two sources: author-initiated submissions and invited articles or commentary. Potential contributors who have ideas about a set of three or four papers written from very different perspectives may contact the editor with their ideas for feedback.
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