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Children over-imitate adults and peers more than puppets
Developmental Science ( IF 3.1 ) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 , DOI: 10.1111/desc.13303
Roman Stengelin 1, 2 , Rabea Ball 1 , Luke Maurits 1 , Patricia Kanngiesser 3 , Daniel B M Haun 1
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Researchers commonly use puppets in development science. Amongst other things, puppets are employed to reduce social hierarchies between child participants and adult experimenters akin to peer interactions. However, it remains controversial whether children treat puppets like real-world social partners in these settings. This study investigated children's imitation of causally irrelevant actions (i.e., over-imitation) performed by puppet, adult, or child models. Seventy-two German children (AgeRange = 4.6–6.5 years; 36 girls) from urban, socioeconomically diverse backgrounds observed a model retrieving stickers from reward containers. The model performed causally irrelevant actions either in contact with the reward container or not. Children were more likely to over-imitate adults’ and peers’ actions as compared to puppets’ actions. Across models, they copied contact actions more than no-contact actions. While children imitate causally irrelevant actions from puppet models to some extent, their social learning from puppets does not necessarily match their social learning from real-world social agents, such as children or adults.

中文翻译:

与木偶相比,儿童过度模仿成人和同龄人

研究人员通常在发展科学中使用木偶。除其他外,木偶被用来减少儿童参与者和成人实验者之间的社会等级制度,类似于同伴互动。然而,在这些环境中,孩子们是否像对待真实世界的社交伙伴一样对待木偶,仍然存在争议。本研究调查了儿童对木偶、成人或儿童模型执行的因果关系无关的动作(即过度模仿)的模仿。七十二个德国孩子(年龄范围 = 4.6–6.5 岁;36 名女孩)来自不同社会经济背景的城市,观察了一个模特从奖励容器中取回贴纸。无论是否与奖励容器接触,模型都会执行因果关系无关的动作。与木偶的行为相比,儿童更有可能过度模仿成人和同龄人的行为。在各个模型中,他们复制的接触动作多于非接触动作。虽然儿童在某种程度上模仿木偶模型中因果关系不相关的动作,但他们从木偶中学习的社会知识不一定与他们从现实世界的社会代理人(例如儿童或成人)中学习的社会知识相匹配。
更新日期:2022-07-12
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