2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Children's and adults' understanding of causality of illness and health : From a perspective of naive biology
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18530506
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
INAGAKI Kayoko Chiba University, 教育学部, 教授 (90090290)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 病気の因果性 / 生気論的因果 / 素朴生物学 / 栄養概念 / 概念発達 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study examined young children's and adults understanding of the causality of illness and health. Results revealed that young children preferred vitalistic explanations (i.e., vital force taken in from foods works as resistance to illness) to explanations emphasizing social/moral desirability. With regard to the food, they considered the amount of food more important than its sorts. Although adults used scientific words such as virus, they did not understand them deeply, and still gave vitalistic explanations for the illness causality.
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Research Products
(5 results)
