Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 208, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105148
Keywords
Humanoid robots; Developmental cybernetics; Tool use; Normativity; Social learning; Child-robot interaction
Funding
- Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language [ARC CE CE140100041]
- National Science Foundation's Temporal Dynamics of Learning Centre [NSF SMA-1041755]
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Children are more likely to adopt and transmit normative knowledge when shown by a human compared to a robot. Older children (5-6 years old) are less likely to select the normative tool than younger children (3-4 years old).
Robots are an increasingly prevalent presence in children's lives. However, little is known about the ways in which children learn from robots and whether they do so in the same way as they learn from humans. To investigate this, we adapted a previously established imitation paradigm centered on inefficient tool use. Children (3-to 6-year-olds; N = 121) were measured on their acquisition and transmission of normative knowledge modeled by a human or a robot. Children were more likely to adopt use of a normative tool and to transmit this knowledge to another when shown how to do so by the human than when shown how to do so by the robot. Older children (5-and 6-year-olds) were less likely than younger children (3-and 4-year-olds) to select the normative tool. Our findings suggest that preschool children are capable of copying and transmitting normative techniques from both human and robot models, albeit at different rates and dependent on age. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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