期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
卷 190, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104713
关键词
Imitation; Goal inference; Children; Context; Intention; Action understanding
资金
- University of Stirling
- European Research Council [648841 RATCHETCOG]
Children, as well as adults, often imitate causally unnecessary actions. Three experiments investigated whether such over-imitation occurs because these actions are interpreted as performed for the movement's sake (i.e., having a movement-based goal). Experiment 1 (N = 30, 2-5-year-olds) replicated previous findings; children imitated actions with no goal more precisely than actions with external goals. Experiment 2 (N = 58, 2-5-year-olds) confirmed that the difference between these conditions was not due to the absence/presence of external goals but rather was also found when actions brought about external goals in a clearly inefficient way. Experiment 3 (N = 36, 3-5-year-olds) controlled for the possibility that imitation fidelity was affected by the number of actions and objects present during the demonstration and confirmed that identical actions were imitated more precisely when they appeared to be more inefficient toward an external goal. Our findings suggest that movement-based goal inference encourages over-imitation. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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