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Direct linkYu, Yue; Kushnir, Tamar – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study asked whether children's tendency to imitate selectively (ignore causally unnecessary actions) versus faithfully ("overimitate" causally unnecessary actions) varies across ages and social contexts. In the first experiment, 2-year-olds and 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to play 1 of 3 prior games with a demonstrator: a…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Imitation, Puzzles, Toddlers
Sobel, David M.; Yoachim, Caroline M.; Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Blumenthal, Emily J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Four experiments examined children's inferences about the relation between objects' internal parts and their causal properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds recognized that objects with different internal parts had different causal properties, and those causal properties transferred if the internal part moved to another object. In Experiment 2,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Inferences, Concept Formation, Age Differences
