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1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Naive Theory of Self-Psychological-Knowledge and Self-Knowledge

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08610152
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionKansai University

Principal Investigator

NOMURA Yukimasa  KANSAI University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30113137)

Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1997
Keywordsremembering / psychological knowledge / positivistic method / naive theory / integration and differentiation / self / joint remembering / autobiographical memory
Research Abstract

The purposes of this article are to investigate personal significance of remembered contents in the remembering of autobiographical memory, and to examine the change of remembered contents in the situation. In addition, to explore how much psychological knowledge is related to the constructed self in remembering. It is very difficult to use the positivistic method for accomplishing these purposes, so, we established another new method to overcome the difficulty. In this method, the investigator must (1) smuggle himself to the relationship between subject and investigator, (2) devote himself to the relationship, (3) describe the world of his physical level. These three active processes are reflected on the method of "integration and differentiation in remembering".
Three subjects remembered their own autobiographical memory in the joint remembering between subject and investigator. The remembered contents are described by investigator's integration and differentiation in remembering. The results of the joint remembering are following. (1) The past events of subject did not change, however, the subjective evaluation of the past events changed. (2) Subjects talked about their characteristics, and attributed their behavior to these characteristics. (3) Their psychological knowledge was integrated into their naive theory, and functioned as their situational knowledge.

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Published: 1999-03-16  

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