Young children's understanding of phenomena and properties in domains where naive biology and naive psychology interact

幼儿对朴素生物学和朴素心理学相互作用的领域中的现象和特性的理解

基本信息

批准号：
14510124
负责人：
INAGAKI Kayoko
金额：
$ 2.05万
依托单位：
Chiba University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2002
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2002 至 2005
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

This project aimed at revealing how young children understand properties and phenomena in domains that naive biology and naive psychology interact. The following results were found through a series of studies with individual interview methods.1. Studies dealing with whether young children could differentiate intermediate properties (i.e., physical dispositional, mental dispositional, physical ability, and mental ability properties) in terms of their long-term modifiability and effective means for modifying them indicated that children as young as 5 years of age had robust intuition about the nature of psychological/mental and biological/physical properties ; the more genetically determined the physical property was, the more difficult the children judged it to be able to change, whereas they judged both mental dispositional and mental ability properties as changeable, but they distinguished the mental dispositional from the mental ability in terms of the means for modification ; even when the children were given a small amount of information suggesting either that the target property was innate or that it was due to a lack of specific experience, they did not change their judgments.2. Studies dealing with children's understanding of psychogenic bodily reactions indicated that not only 5-year-olds but also 7-year-olds had difficulty with recognizing that psychological states could lead a person to have bodily physical reactions, though they recognized that a psychological event could cause a behavioral outcome and that a physical event could cause a physical health outcome.

该项目旨在揭示幼儿如何理解朴素生物学和朴素心理学相互作用的领域中的属性和现象。采用个体访谈法进行一系列研究，得出以下结果： 1．关于幼儿是否能够区分中间属性（即身体倾向、心理倾向、身体能力和心理能力属性）的长期可修改性和有效修改方法的研究表明，年仅 5 岁的儿童年龄对心理/精神和生物/物理特性的本质有强烈的直觉；身体属性越是由基因决定，孩子们就越难判断它能够改变，而他们认为心理倾向和心理能力属性都是可以改变的，但他们从手段上区分心理倾向和心理能力。用于修改；即使当儿童获得少量信息表明目标属性是与生俱来的或由于缺乏特定经验而导致的时，他们也没有改变自己的判断。2．关于儿童对心因性身体反应的理解的研究表明，不仅 5 岁的孩子，而且 7 岁的孩子也很难认识到心理状态可能导致一个人产生身体反应，尽管他们认识到心理事件可能会导致身体反应。导致行为结果，而身体事件可能导致身体健康结果。