Remote Control and Children's Understanding of Robots

Autor/inn/en	Somanader, Mark C.; Saylor, Megan M.; Levin, Daniel T.
Titel	Remote Control and Children's Understanding of Robots
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109 (2011) 2, S.239-247 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2011.01.005
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Motion; Robotics; Technology Uses in Education; Preschool Children; Classification; Thinking Skills; Comprehension; Child Development; Experimental Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Bewegungsablauf; Robotertechnik; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Denkfähigkeit; Verstehen; Verständnis; Kindesentwicklung; Experimentelle Psychologie
Abstract	Children use goal-directed motion to classify agents as living things from early in infancy. In the current study, we asked whether preschoolers are flexible in their application of this criterion by introducing them to robots that engaged in goal-directed motion. In one case the robot appeared to move fully autonomously, and in the other case it was controlled by a remote. We found that 4- and 5-year-olds attributed fewer living thing properties to the robot after seeing it controlled by a remote, suggesting that they are flexible in their application of the goal-directed motion criterion in the face of conflicting evidence of living thing status. Children can flexibly incorporate internal causes for an agent's behavior to enrich their understanding of novel agents. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10