第26回総会準備委員長特別講演要旨

認知と行動

抄録

The relations between cognition and behavior were inquired from various aspects. Before analyzing their relations, different aspects of both terms were examined.The main aspects examined are as fallows.
1. Cognition as a drive of behavior.
2. From behavior to cognition as a direction of development.
3. As a dimension in personality; cognition and behavior as orientations of value in personality.
4. As functions to be distributed as a mental re-;source.
5. Cognition as a ontroling function of behavior
For the control of behavior by cognition, two levels were differentiated: control of behavior by cognition in perceptual level and control of behavior by cognition in representational level. Several experiments on both levels were reported. For the cognition in perceptual level, three xperiments on rhythm synchronization and rhythm-pattern reproduction were reported as examples of performances as functions of rhythm-pattern comprehension. Also an experiment on the relation of hearing and pronunciation of English phoneme (L & R) by Japanese subjects was reported. For the cognition inepresentational level, two experimentso- n the influenceso fknowledgeo n sentence completiona nd memoryw ere reported where subjects with high level knowledge showed better performance than subjects with low level knowledge. An experiment on social cognition was reported where subjects with high cognitivec omplexitys howedb etter performancei n the prediction of.behavior of assumed person integrated from complex informations. Another experiment on self cognition was also reported where subjects with high self consciousnesss howedl ess good performance in the color,n aming of Stroopt-typ,el ists with self-relevant words. In th last part, an aspect of impotence of cognition in the control of behavior was examined, and it was stressed that the beliefe of causality between cognition and behavior was an important variable to maintain the controling function of cognition on behavior.