Children Over-Imitate Adults and Peers More than Puppets

Autor/inn/en	Stengelin, Roman; Ball, Rabea; Maurits, Luke; Kanngiesser, Patricia; Haun, Daniel B. M.
Titel	Children Over-Imitate Adults and Peers More than Puppets
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 26 (2023) 2, (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.13303
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Puppetry; Interaction; Imitation; Adults; Models; Social Development; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Puppenspiel; Interaktion; Analogiemodell; Soziale Entwicklung; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	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 (Age[subscript Range] = 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. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01