幼児期における力学的性質としての因果関係知覚(因果知覚に関する研究の新たな展開-ヒトと動物の比較-,第24回大会 シンポジウム1)

抄録

First, the position of the perception of causality in the entire theory of perception by Michotte was discussed, and the theory of agency by Leslie was introduced in order to classify the various causal relations. Second, the reliability of verbal reports by young children, from 4 to 6 years old, was discussed and some evidence was presented that young children could tell a causal stimulus from a non-causal stimulus and that they used different words to report what they saw. Third, perceptual, intellectual and tactile-kinesthetic factors which were considered to contribute to the development of the perception of causality by young children were discussed. The perceptual ability to segregate the causal stimulus into cause and effect was verified to contribute to the development of the perception of causality, but intellectual ability, which was measured by an intelligence test, was not found to contribute to that development. The experience of operating a moving target on a monitor by means of a key to make it stop facilitated integration of the tactile-kinesthetic experience of pushing some object with the visual experience of two moving objects in a causal stimulus. As supporting evidence some data which showed the development of the size-weight illusion by young children was presented.