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Kiraly, Ildiko – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
This study demonstrated selective "rational" imitation in infants in two testing conditions: in the presence or absence of the model during the response phase. In the study, 14-month-olds were more likely to imitate a tool-use behavior when a prior failed attempt emphasized the logical reason and relevance of introducing this novel means, making…
Descriptors: Cues, Testing, Imitation, Observational Learning
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Hopper, Lydia M.; Flynn, Emma G.; Wood, Lara A. N.; Whiten, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In the first of two experiments, we demonstrate the spread of a novel form of tool use across 20 "cultural generations" of child-to-child transmission. An experimentally seeded technique spread with 100% fidelity along twice as many "generations" as has been investigated in recent exploratory "diffusion" experiments of this type. This contrasted…
Descriptors: Socialization, Population Distribution, Imitation, Observational Learning
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Herold, Katherine H.; Akhtar, Nameera – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
Young children's ability to learn something new from a third-party interaction may be related to the ability to imagine themselves in the third-party interaction. This imaginative ability presupposes an understanding of self-other equivalence, which is manifested in an objective understanding of the self and an understanding of others' subjective…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Observational Learning, Interaction, Young Children
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Flynn, Emma; Whiten, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
We investigated developmental changes in the level of information children incorporate into their imitation when a model executes complex, hierarchically organized actions. A total of 57 3-year-olds and 60 5-year-olds participated, watching video demonstrations of an "artificial fruit" box being opened through a complex series of nine different…
Descriptors: Imitation, Child Development, Young Children, Child Behavior
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Strouse, Gabrielle A.; Troseth, Georgene L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
Imitation of people on educational television is a potential way for very young children to learn new skills. Although toddlers in previous studies exhibited a "video deficit" in learning, 24-month-olds in Study 1 successfully reproduced behaviors modeled by a person who was on video as well as they did those modeled by a person who was present in…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Imitation, Toddlers, Information Sources
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth; Acito, Marlene A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Preschool children who did not group a set of geometric stimuli according to complete similarity on a pretest were taught classification wither in a modeling or in a reinforcement condition. Modeling was found to be an effective means of teaching classification behavior. (ST)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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Morgulas, Susan; Zimmerman, Barry J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Tests the hypothesis that there is a relationship between children's comprehension of a syntactic form and the effectiveness of modeling in promoting imitation of that form. Subjects were 71 four- and five-year-old children. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Imitation, Learning Processes
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Abravanel, Eugene – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Describes research on young children's long-term memory under 2 conditions of acquisition: direct imitation followed by a 10-minute delay, or deferred imitation. Children were able to encode and retain as much from visual pickup of modeled acts as from feedback obtained through imitation. (Author/GH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Imitation, Infants
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Litrownik, Alan J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Handicapped Children