A Study on the Cognitive Process and EEG in Watching a Science TV Program

Abstract

It seems that a direction is generated in child's thinking while he is watching a science TV program. This study attempts to make it clear. The hypothesis is following: The direction is generated by a conceptual conflict which is caused by discorepancy of thinking process. The objective of this research is to make clear the conceptual conflict in watching a science TV program. In this research, subjects were ten boys of 5th-grade in elementary school, who had learned through science TV programs for one consecutive year. EEG is adopted as the index for analyzing the conceptual conflict. And TV notes were analyzed in order to research child's understanding. The main results were as follows. 1) The science TV program was sufficiently understood. 2) In accordance with logical structure of that program, a direction was generated in child's thinking. 3) A variety of conceptual conflict was found in each child. 4) The scenes of conceptual conflict which depended on the logical structure of that program were extracted. 5) It was suggested that the conceptual conflict could be analyzed with EEG.