{"id":7386,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biological_knowledge\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:19","slug":"biological_knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biological_knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge of biological processes specific to living things, such as growth, metamorphosis, healing, inheritance, illness and contagion. &nbsp;In young children, such knowledge is often expressed partly in terms of ideas derived from animistic thinking. &nbsp;In adults, variations in biological knowledge give rise to differences in opinion about the nature-nurture debate.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"animistic_thinking\">Animistic thinking<\/a>, <a href=\"nature-nurture_debate\">Nature-nurture debate<\/a>, Physical knowledge<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge of biological processes specific to living things, such as growth, metamorphosis, healing, inheritance, illness and contagion. &nbsp;In young children, such knowledge is often expressed partly in terms of ideas derived from animistic thinking. &nbsp;In adults, variations in biological knowledge give rise to differences in opinion about the nature-nurture debate. See Animistic thinking, Nature-nurture debate, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biological_knowledge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biological knowledge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}