Children's Use of Social Cues When Learning Conventions

Autor/inn/en	Wagner, Laura; Dunfield, Kristen A.; Rohrbeck, Kristin L.
Titel	Children's Use of Social Cues When Learning Conventions
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 15 (2014) 3, S.479-494 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2013.782459
Schlagwörter	Cues; Social Influences; Social Development; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Dialects; Familiarity; Films; Coding; Child Behavior; Scoring; Preferences; Young Children; Verbal Communication; Imitation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziale Entwicklung; Dialect; Dialekt; Film; Codierung; Programmierung; Bewertung; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	In a series of two experiments, we examined 5-year-old children's motivations for learning new conventional actions. Children watched two teachers open a novel container; the teachers differed in the nonfunctional, conventional actions they used in the process. In Experiment 1, one teacher spoke with a native accent and the other spoke with a nonnative accent. Children showed a preference for following the native-accented teacher, and this preference was interpreted as a motivation to match an in-group member. In Experiment 2, the speech accent of the teacher was crossed with explicit expressions of (un)certainty by the teachers. In this case, children preferred the more certain teacher, even when the certain teacher spoke with a nonnative speech accent. This preference was taken as demonstrating a utilitarian motivation that led to choosing the teacher most likely to have useful information. Taken together, these results suggest that by 5 years of age, children are motivated by both utilitarian and in-group considerations when selecting between sources of information; however, when forced to select between the two motivations, utilitarian concerns take precedent. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10