Education
2015.
Ph. D., Human Development, Cornell University
2006.
M. A., Child Development and Family Studies, Seoul National University
2002.
B. A., Consumer Sciences and Child Studies, Seoul National University
경력
- 현. 서울대학교 생활과학대학 아동가족학과 부교수
- 전. 부산대학교 생활환경대학 아동가족학과 조교수
- 전. 서울대학교 생활과학대학 아동가족학과 BK21플러스
5C형 아동가족학인재양성사업팀 신진연구인력
Employment
2023 – Current.
Associate Professor, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University
2019 – 2022.
Assistant Professor, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University
2016.09. – 2019.02.
Assistant Professor, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Pusan National University
2016.06. – 2016.08.
Postdoctoral Researcher, BK21 Plus The Integrated 5C Child and Family Professional Training Program: Competent, Cross-disciplinary, Creative, Collaborative, and Committed, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University
2005.03. – 2006.02.
Head Teacher for 1-year-old class, Childcare Center, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University
2004.03 – 2005.02.
Science Activity Teacher, Childcare Center, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University
2002.03. – 2004.02.
Head Teacher for 2-year-old and 5-year-old classes, Childcare Center, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University
외부경력
- 현. 보육지원학회지 편집위원장
- 현. 인지발달중재학회 학술이사
- 현. 한국아동학회 평이사. 현 대한가정학회 평이사
- 현. 관악구 보육정책심의위원회 위원장
- 현. 관악구다문화가족지원센터 자문위원. 현 키즈넷 원격 평생교육원 자문위원
수상경력
- Cognitive Development Society 2015 International Young Scholar Award
저서
- 김진경, 박유정(2021). 영유아교사론. 한국방송통신대학교출판문화원.
- 민미희, 김정민, 김지현, 김유미, 박유정(2020). 보육학개론. 파워북.
- Casasola, M., & Park, Y. (2020). How multiple exemplars matter for infant spatial categorization. In: Childers J. (eds) Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood. Springer, Cham
- 김진욱, 박유정, 이미애, 윤소정(2019). 보육정책론. 파주: 양서원.
- 권미경, 권혜진, 김유미, 김은영, 김정민, 김지현, 김진경, 김헤라, 민미희, 박유정, 서주현, 성미영, 손승희, 순진이, 오지은, 우현경, 유주연, 이소은, 이정현, 임여정, 전가일, 정윤주, 정하나, 정현심, 최나야, 최은정, 최인화(2017). 아동학 강의: 아동에 대한 질문과 대답. 서울: 학지사.
- 이순형, 박유정, 전가일(2008). 서울대어린이집 무엇을 배우나. 서울: 교문사.
Recent Publications
- Park, Y. J., & Park, Y. (2025). Impact of the presentation medium, viewing angle, and iconicity of maps on four-year-old children’s map reading. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 46(1), 1-14.
- Lee, S., & Park, Y. (2024). Five-year-olds’ use of geometric and featural information in virtual space representation. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 45(4), 495-506.
- Choi, J., & Park, Y. (2024). What is moving where? Infants’ visual attention to dynamic objects may assist with processing of spatial relations. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1261201.
- Park, Y., Choi, J., & Park, J. (2023). Differences in mothers’ use of spatial language during mother-infant play based on play materials and infant sex. The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction, 23(18), 785-798.
- Park, Y., & Choi, J. (2023). The effects of background music, exemplar heterogeneity, and perceptual cues on infants’ categorization of support relations. Journal of cognitive Enhancement and Intervention, 14(3), 17-38.
- Park, J., Park, Y., Lee, Y., Baik, S., & Choe, S. (2023). Four-year-old children’s counting skills and their mothers’ use of number words: The mediating role of children’s number word use. Journal of Korean Child Care and Education, 19(6), 79-95.
- Yang, L. & Park, Y. (2022). Group membership trumps shared preference in five-year-olds’ resource allocation, social preference, and social evaluation. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 866966.
- Kang, E., & Park, Y. (2022). The impact of other-race perceptual individuation training on five- to six-year-olds’ categorization of mixed-race faces. Journal of Korean Child Care and Education, 18(2), 85-103.
- Choi, J., & Park, Y. (2021). Adults’ visual attention during spatial memory task: Comparison with object memory task and individual differences. Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction, 21(15), 739-755.
- Kim, J., Lee, M., & Park, Y. (2021). The impacts of emotional labor, social relationships, and working conditions on psychological burnout in Korean childcare teachers. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 12(13), 6040-6049.
- Choi, J., Park, Y., Kim, H. et al. (2021). Daily life changes and life satisfaction among Korean school-aged children in the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 3324.
- Choi, S., Park, Y., & Kim, S. (2021). Relationship between equal sharing and numerical competence in four- to five-year-old children. Journal of Cognitive Development and Intervention, 12(1), 1-21.
- Park, Y. (2020). Effects of age, spatial relation and object type on young children’s analogical transfer of spatial relations. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 41(3), 81-93.
- Choi, J., Park, Y., & Kang, E. (2020). An analysis of Korean research trends on the competence of ECEC system. The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 21, 11(3), 1165-1180.
- Kim, J., & Park, Y. (2018). Age- and sex-related differences in sleep patterns among Korean young children. Korean Journal of Community Living Science, 29, 379-389.
- Park, Y., & Casasola, M. (2017). The impact of object type on the spatial analogies in Korean preschoolers. Cognitive Psychology, 94, 53-66.
- Chae, J., & Park, Y. (2016). Parenting stress and maternal attachment to infants: Examining the moderating effect of social support. The Korean Journal of the Human Development, 23, 101-120.
- Park, Y., & Kim, J. (2016). Daycare arrival time and daily lives of 5-year-old children. Korean Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 10, 83-103.
- Park, Y., & Casasola, M. (2015). Plain or decorated? Object visual features matter in infant spatial categorization. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 140, 105-119.
- Park, Y., & Kim, J. (2015). How children acquire language-specific ways of partitioning space: Creating a semantic category system using semantic primitives. Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts, 5, 21-38.
- Casasola, M., & Park, Y. (2013). Developmental changes in infant spatial categorization: When more is best and when less is enough. Child Development, 84, 1004-1019.
- Park, Y., Casasola, M., & Kim, J. (2012). Do simple objects facilitate infants’ formation of a spatial category? Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts, 2, 77-90.
- Park, Y., & Yi, S. (2007). Preschoolers’ use of trait labels to make inferences about people according to their age and task variables. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 77-94.
Recent Grants
- “Development and Implementation of a Program for Young Children’s Mental Growth” / 2025. 03- 2025. 12 / Principal Investigator / Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation
- “Development of a Collaborative Robot System and Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction Services for Supporting Young Children’s Daily Activity Care” / 2024. 04-2026. 12 / Principal Investigator / Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
- “Asessing Childcare Support Needs and Developing Strategies for University Community Members” / 2024 / Principal Investigator / Seoul National University
- “Collaborative Development of Reasoning Skills Education and Evaluation of Its Effectiveness” / 2021-2022 / Principal Investigator / NAVER Connect Foundation
- “The Role of Object Visual Features in Infant Spatial Categorization” / 2019-2021 / Principal Investigator / Korean Ministry of Education
- “Eye Movements and Spatial Categorization Performance in Infants” / 2019-2020 / Principal Investigator / Seoul National University
- “Aiming for Caring Academic Community of SNU with Improved Educare Services” / 2019 / Co-Investigator / Seoul National University
- “The Integrated 5C Child and Family Professional Training Program: Competent, Cross-disciplinary, Creative, Collaborative, and Committed” / 2019-2020 / Co-Investigator / National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Education
학술대회발표 및 초청강연
- 박유정, 이순형, “유아의 과제 변수에 따른 대인 추론: 특질단서 사용을 중심으로”, 2007 한국아동학회 춘계학술대회. 한국아동학회 (2007/04/28) (대한민국) (서울) [전국규모 학술회의]
- Casasola, M., Choi, S., Rohlfing, K., Fischer, S., 박유정, Pyoun, J., & Downs, C., “Cross-linguistic differences in English-, German-, and Korean-learning infants’ categorization of support relations”, Poster presented at the 6th biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (2009/10/17) (미국) (San Antonio) (발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “Do simple objects facilitate infants’ formation of a spatial category?”, Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies (2010/03/10) (미국) (Baltimore) (발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- Iricinschi, C., 박유정, Walker, T., Casasola, M., “Infants’ perception of motion events: Discrimination between manners and paths of motion” Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (2011/08/24) (노르웨이) (Bergen) (공동연구) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “Do objects matter for infant spatial categorization?”, Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Conference (2012/8/2) (일본) (Sapporo) (발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “The simplest objects may not be the best for infant spatial learning”, Paper symposium “Focus on relations versus objects: cross-cultural differences” at Society for Research in Child Development (2013/4/20) (미국) (Seattle) (사회(좌장), 발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- Iricinschi, C., 박유정, Casasola, M., “Preverbal infants’ processing of manner and path in naturalistic motion events”, Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development (2013/4/18) (미국) (Seattle) (공동연구) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “The impact of object type and spatial vocabulary in the spatial analogies performance of preschool children”, Paper symposium at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (2015/3/20) (미국) (Philadelphia) (발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, 김진욱, “만3세 유아의 위치어 습득 및 공간관계 일반화 능력”, 2015 한국보육지원학회 춘계학술대회. 한국보육지원학회 (2015/5/2) (대한민국) (서울) (발표자) [전국규모 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “English- and Korean-speaking preK children’s acquisition of spatial words: Are there cross-linguistic differences?”, Poster presented at Pre-conference of Cognitive Development Society 2015 Biennial Meeting (2015/10/8) (미국) (Columbus) (발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “Korean children’s spatial vocabulary and spatial analogy performance”, Poster presented at the biennial conference of the Cognitive Development Society (2015/10/9) (미국) (Columbus) (발표자) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, 채진영, “어머니의 양육스트레스가 영아에 대한 애착에 미치는 영향: 사회적 지지의 조절효과 검증”, 2016 한국인간발달학회 춘계학술대회. 한국인간발달학회 (2016/5/21) (대한민국) (서울) (발표자) [전국규모 학술회의]
- 박유정, Casasola, M., “Preschoolers’ spatial reasoning: Is support more challenging than containment?”, XXI ICIS Biennial Congress, (2018/06/30-2018/07/03) (미국) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, 김진욱, “Preschoolers’ spatial reasoning may benefit from perceptually sparse geometric shapes, but not perceptually rich geometric shapes”, 25th Biennial Meeting of the ISSBD, (2018/07/15-2018/07/19) (호주) [국제 학술회의]
- 박유정, 조혜정, “Does children’s observation of adult divergent thinking enhance their own divergent thinking?”, The 3rd Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, (2018/09/05-2018/09/07) (영국) [국제 학술회의]
