2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cognitive-developmental research about emergence of physical and psychological causality in infancy
| Project/Area Number |
22700280
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Shizuoka University of Art and Culture |
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Principal Investigator |
KOSUGI Daisuke 静岡文化芸術大学, 文化政策学部, 講師 (80399013)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 認知発達 / 因果性 / 社会性 |
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| Research Abstract |
Two experiments examined 6-to 7-month-old infants' recognition of physical causality and psychological causality and relation between them. In Experiment 1, I examined infants' recognition of causality in movement of a ball. Then, infants looked longer an event in which a ball started to move without external force than an event in which a ball was caused to move. In Experiment 2, I examined whether infants recognize an actor's goal or not when they witnessed his failed reaching. Moreover, infants who showed preference for unnatural event in Experiment 1 performed better in Experiment 2 than infants who did not show such preference in Experiment 1.
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