关键词: 中国儿童, 推理能力, 心理理论, 情感决策

Abstract: The psychological characteristic between Chinese children and foreign children have its commonalities and differences. To follow the footsteps of Mr Zhu Zhixian and under the guidance of Professor Lin Chongde, We conducted a series of studies to explore the reasoning ability of Chinese children. Along the way, a series of researches were taken to explore the Chinese children's physical world of reasoning ability(including transitive inference, causal reasoning, analogy reasoning and inductive reasoning, etc), theory of mind, which is the important cornerstone of the development of children's social reasoning, and the affective decision making(social reasoning which point to ego), and the factors affecting the development of children's reasoning ability. Some important and interesting results were found, however, complete and accurate conclusions were still not obtained which giving an overall perspective of the development of Chinese children's reasoning ability. That is because the difficulty of the research of children's cognitive development. However, from the perspectives of the scientific research need, the social demand for children's education, the national strategic development for the future talented person's demand, children's cognitive development research are so significant. Therefore, the research on child psychology need to be strengthened, the scientific research input and human resources support must also be strengthened as well.

Key words: Chinese children, reasoning ability, theory of mind, affective decision making.