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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 222-238Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13403
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [HO 4342/8-1]
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
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This study found that children tend to imitate causally irrelevant actions, even when they know there is a more efficient solution. Whether the model is human or robot, children are equally likely to exhibit over-imitation behavior.
From preschool age, humans tend to imitate causally irrelevant actions-they over-imitate. This study investigated whether children over-imitate even when they know a more efficient task solution and whether they imitate irrelevant actions equally from a human compared to a robot model. Five-to-six-year-olds (N = 107) watched either a robot or human retrieve a reward from a puzzle box. First a model demonstrated an inefficient (Trial 1), then an efficient (Trial 2), then again the inefficient strategy (Trial 3). Subsequent to each demonstration, children copied whichever strategy had been demonstrated regardless of whether the model was a human or a robot. Results indicate that over-imitation can be socially motivated, and that humanoid robots and humans are equally likely to elicit this behavior.
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