Learning about Tool Categories via Eavesdropping

Autor/inn/en	Phillips, Brenda; Seston, Rebecca; Kelemen, Deborah
Titel	Learning about Tool Categories via Eavesdropping
Quelle	In: Child Development, 83 (2012) 6, S.2057-2072 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01827.x
Schlagwörter	Toddlers; Adults; Familiarity; Observational Learning; Young Children; Memory; Recall (Psychology); Cues + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Imitationslernen; Frühe Kindheit; Gedächtnis; Abberufung; Stichwort
Abstract	Prior research has found that toddlers will form enduring artifact categories after direct exposure to an adult using a novel tool. Four studies explored whether 2- (N = 48) and 3-year-olds (N = 32) demonstrate this same capacity when learning by eavesdropping. After surreptitiously observing an adult use 1 of 2 artifacts to operate a bell via a monitor, 3-year-olds returned to the demonstrated kind of tool as "for" the task and avoided it for an alternative task over 2 days. Two-year-olds performed similarly after eavesdropping on someone with more discriminable artifacts via the method of a window rather than a monitor. These results demonstrate that toddlers can acquire enduring artifact categories after less than 40 s of surreptitious observation. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10