Amanda J. Lucas
The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother
Lucas, Amanda J.; Burdett, Emily R. R.; Burgess, Vanessa; Wood, Lara A.; McGuigan, Nicola; Harris, Paul L.; Whiten, Andrew
Authors
EMILY BURDETT EMILY.BURDETT@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Vanessa Burgess
Lara A. Wood
Nicola McGuigan
Paul L. Harris
Andrew Whiten
Contributors
EMILY BURDETT EMILY.BURDETT@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Researcher
Abstract
© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. This study tested the prediction that, with age, children should rely less on familiarity and more on expertise in their selective social learning. Experiment 1 (N=50) found that 5- to 6-year-olds copied the technique their mother used to extract a prize from a novel puzzle box, in preference to both a stranger and an established expert. This bias occurred despite children acknowledging the expert model's superior capability. Experiment 2 (N=50) demonstrated a shift in 7- to 8-year-olds toward copying the expert. Children aged 9–10 years did not copy according to a model bias. The findings of a follow-up study (N=30) confirmed that, instead, they prioritized their own—partially flawed—causal understanding of the puzzle box.
Citation
Lucas, A. J., Burdett, E. R. R., Burgess, V., Wood, L. A., McGuigan, N., Harris, P. L., & Whiten, A. (2017). The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother. Child Development, 88(6), 2026-2042. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12711
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | May 31, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 29, 2016 |
Publication Date | Nov 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Nov 28, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 20, 2020 |
Journal | Child Development |
Print ISSN | 0009-3920 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-8624 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 88 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 2026-2042 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12711 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2839376 |
Publisher URL | https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.12711 |
Files
Lucas Et Al -2016-Child Development
(794 Kb)
PDF
You might also like
Religion-related Values Differently Influence Moral Attitude for Robots in the US and Japan
(2023)
Journal Article
Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts
(2023)
Journal Article
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model
(2022)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Repository@Nottingham
Administrator e-mail: discovery-access-systems@nottingham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search