“理智性现实主义”使得儿童有一种倾向,即他们在回答知觉性问题时,不是直接地报告他们通过观察所看到的内容,而是“理智性”地指出他们对于一个物体或陈列所了解的内容。虽然“理智性现实主义”在本世纪初已经被提出,但它的原因至今仍不十分清楚。以往的许多研究是关于儿童图画的。例如,Freeman和Tanikoun一九七二年做了一个实验,要求儿童画出从他们坐着的地方所能看见的某一东西,结果发现,当一个茶杯背向被试放置以致它的手把不能被看见时,在儿童的图画中却包含了手把。Liben和Belknap一九八一年在实 “Rational realism ” makes children have a tendency that when they answer perceptual questions they do not directly report what they see through their observations, but rather “reason” to point out that for an object Or display what you know. Although “rational realism ” has been put forward at the beginning of this century, its cause is still not very clear. Many previous studies were about children’s drawings. For example, Freeman and Tanikoun, who conducted an experiment in 1972, asked children to draw something that they could see from the place where they were sitting, and found that when a teacup was placed away from the subject so that its handle could not When seen, children’s drawings include a handlebar. Liben and Belknap were in the works in 1981