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McGuigan, Nicola; Whiten, Andrew; Flynn, Emma; Horner, Victoria – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated whether the tendency to imitate or emulate is influenced by the availability of causal information, and the amount of information available in a display. Three and 5-year-old children were shown by either a live or video model how to obtain a reward from either a clear or an opaque puzzle box. Some of the actions in the sequence…
Descriptors: Imitation, Prior Learning, Modeling (Psychology), Cognitive Structures