| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 93 === The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the number of turns and distractions encountered along a path on kindergarten children’s distance and time estimations. Adults were also involved in this study, to know the effect of age. In Tasks 1 and 2, all subjects walked along two paths, containing none or 5 turns, to test the turn effect. To test the distraction effect, all subjects walked along two paths containing 5 turns in both Tasks 3 and 4; and during one of the two paths subjects were asked to count or to do simple calculations. Subjects estimated walking distance in Tasks 1 and 3, estimated walking duration in Tasks 2 and 4. Distance and time estimations differed significantly in all Tasks for adult subjects, but we can’t get any correlation between adults’ distance and time estimations. For children, distance and time estimations only differed significantly in distraction tests, from which we also got strong correlation between children’s distance and time estimations. It was concluded that the turn effect may not be a robust phenomenon but distraction effect could heavily affect our distance and time estimations during path walking. Although we only got partial evidence to prove that concept of time can affect our distance perception, we considered that it’s because adult subjects used different strategies, which can’t reflect our real cognitive states as walking, between time and distance estimation, and 5 turns were too little to make children perceive turn effect. In our research we also suggested a model of distance estimation for explaining the way turns and distractions affect our perception of distance and the relation between concepts of time and distance as walking.
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