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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 88, Issue 6, Pages 2026-2042Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12711
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- John Templeton Foundation [40128]
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This study tested the prediction that, with age, children should rely less on familiarity and more on expertise in their selective social learning. Experiment 1 (N=50) found that 5- to 6-year-olds copied the technique their mother used to extract a prize from a novel puzzle box, in preference to both a stranger and an established expert. This bias occurred despite children acknowledging the expert model's superior capability. Experiment 2 (N=50) demonstrated a shift in 7- to 8-year-olds toward copying the expert. Children aged 9-10 years did not copy according to a model bias. The findings of a follow-up study (N=30) confirmed that, instead, they prioritized their ownpartially flawedcausal understanding of the puzzle box.
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