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Chimps will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war
parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as
social beings, they have little instinct to help one another. Chimps in the
wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share
food with their children. Who are able from a young age to gather their own
food.
In the laboratory, chimps don't naturally share food either. If a
chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or,
with no great effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the
next cage, he will pull at random — he just doesn't care whether his neighbor
gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.
Human children, on the other hand are extremely cooperative. From
the earliest ages, they decide to help others, to share information and to
participate a achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has
studied this cooperativeness in a series of expensive with very young children.
He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an worried adult with hands full
trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.
There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help,
inform and share are not taught but naturally possessed in young children. One
is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have
started to train children to behave socially. Another is that the helping
behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that
social intelligence develops in children before their general cognitive skills,
at least when compared with chimps. In tests conducted by Tomtasell, the
children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests, but were
considerably better at understanding the social world.
The cure of what children's minds have and chimps' don't in what
Tomasello calls what. Part of this ability is that they can infer what others
know or are thinking. But that, even very young children want to be part of a
shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a "we", a group that
intends to work toward a shared goal.
答案: Unlike chimps, which have been found really selfish, human children are cooperative and this tendency to cooperate is considered a natural instinct. First, this is because this instinct happens at an early age, even before social behavior training. Besides, the helping behaviors can't be improved by rewarding and human's social intelligence develops before cognitive skills. The core of children's natural cooperativeness is called shared intentionality, which is rooted in human's sociality.