Development of the Vitalistic causality as an cross mind-body explanation framework.

发展生命主义因果关系作为跨心身解释框架。

基本信息

批准号：
19530599
负责人：
TOYAMA Noriko
金额：
$ 1.16万
依托单位：
Tsuda College
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2007 至 2009
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Ten experiments were conducted on Japanese children and adults to assess their awareness of vitalistic causality as a cross mind-body explanatory framework. In Studies 1-3, 4- and 5-year-old preschoolers and 7- and 10-year-olds were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of biological and psychological treatments for psychogenic bodily reactions. The preschoolers tended to respond that only biological cures were effective in treating psychogenic bodily reactions, whereas adults typically responded that only psychological cures were effective. However, by modifying the wordings of the questions, both the preschoolers and adults tended to respond that psychological and biological cures were effective in treating these psychogenic bodily reactions. Next, through four experiments, the development of vitalistic causality was examined. Vitalistic causality presumes that bodily phenomena are attributed to the workings of vital force. Both adults and preschoolers responded that the concept of vig … More or, corresponding to a vital force, had implications that crossed mind and body. They assumed that a vigorous man would have both bodily and mental properties, and that vigor would be gained through bodily and mental activities. These results suggested that Japanese adults and young children were somewhat similar in their bio-psychological awareness of vital force. However, the results showed several age-related differences. Specifically, adults had a more elaborate awareness of understanding of mechanisms, and they assumed more kinds of pathways of mind-body interactions. Finally, we investigated whether A nursery school's practice of growing vegetables would affect children's biological awareness of plants and vitalistic conceptions. The children in A school were more likely to assume plants as living-things based on biological reasons and their predictions about "edible" plants in the situation of overwatering and lack of sunlight were more biological in A school than in the other school. The discussion focused on the developmental course of vitalistic causality and cross-domain awareness. Less

在研究 1-3、4 和 5 岁以及 7 岁和 10 岁的日本儿童和成人中进行了 10 项实验，以评估他们对活力因果关系作为跨心身解释框架的认识。被要求评估生物和心理治疗对心因性身体反应的有效性时，学龄前儿童倾向于认为只有生物治疗才能有效治疗心因性身体反应，而成年人通常回答说只有心理治疗才有效。根据问题的措辞，学龄前儿童和成人都倾向于认为心理和生物疗法可以有效治疗这些心因性身体反应。成年人和学龄前儿童都认为，活力的概念具有跨越心灵和身体的含义，他们认为一个充满活力的人同时具有身体和精神属性。活力会这些结果表明，日本成年人和幼儿对生命力的生物心理认识有些相似，但结果显示出一些与年龄相关的差异，具体来说，成年人对生命力的认识更为细致。最后，我们调查了A幼儿园种植蔬菜的做法是否会影响孩子们对植物的生物意识和活力观念。植物是基于生物学原因的生物他们对在过度浇水和缺乏阳光的情况下“可食用”植物的预测在A学派中比在其他学派中更加生物学。讨论集中在活力因果关系和跨领域意识的发展过程上。