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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
卷 112, 期 1, 页码 73-83出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.01.001
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Overimiration; Third-party learning; Social learning; Culture; Imitation; Social cognition
The exhibition of actions that are causally unnecessary to the outcomes with which they are associated is a core feature of human cultural behavior. To enter into the world(s) of their cultural in-group, children must learn to assimilate such unnecessary actions into their own behavioral repertoire. Past research has established the habitual tendency of children to adopt the redundant actions of adults demonstrated directly to them. Here we document how young children will do so even when such actions are modeled to a third person regardless of whether children are presented with the test apparatus by the demonstrating, and assumedly expert, adult or by the observing, and assumedly naive. adult (Experiment 1), whether or not children had opportunity to discover how the apparatus works prior to modeling (Experiment 1). and whether or not children's attention was drawn to the demonstration while they were otherwise occupied (Experiment 2). These results emphasize human children's readiness to acquire behavior that is in keeping with what others do, regardless of the apparent efficiency of the actions employed, and in so doing to participate in cultural learning. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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