Imitation, collaboration and their interaction among western and indigenous Australian preschool children
- Nielsen, Mark, Mushin, Ilana, Tomaselli, Keyan, Whiten, Andrew
- Authors: Nielsen, Mark , Mushin, Ilana , Tomaselli, Keyan , Whiten, Andrew
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Social learning , Overimitation , Cultural transmission
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/122652 , uj:20685 , Citation: Nielsen, M. et al. 2016. Imitation, collaboration and their interaction among western and indigenous Australian preschool children.
- Description: Abstract: This study explored how overimitation and collaboration interact in 3 to 6-year-old children in Westernized (N=48 in Experiment 1; N=26 in Experiment 2) and Indigenous Australian communities (N=26 in Experiment 2). Whether working in pairs or on their own rates of overimitation did not differ. However, when the causal functions of modeled actions were unclear the Indigenous Australian children collaborated at enhanced rates compared with the Western children. When the causal role of witnessed actions was identifiable, collaboration rates were correlated with production of causally unnecessary actions, but in the Indigenous Australian children only. This study highlights how children employ imitation and collaboration when acquiring new skills and how the latter can be influenced by task structure and cultural background.
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- Authors: Nielsen, Mark , Mushin, Ilana , Tomaselli, Keyan , Whiten, Andrew
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Social learning , Overimitation , Cultural transmission
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/122652 , uj:20685 , Citation: Nielsen, M. et al. 2016. Imitation, collaboration and their interaction among western and indigenous Australian preschool children.
- Description: Abstract: This study explored how overimitation and collaboration interact in 3 to 6-year-old children in Westernized (N=48 in Experiment 1; N=26 in Experiment 2) and Indigenous Australian communities (N=26 in Experiment 2). Whether working in pairs or on their own rates of overimitation did not differ. However, when the causal functions of modeled actions were unclear the Indigenous Australian children collaborated at enhanced rates compared with the Western children. When the causal role of witnessed actions was identifiable, collaboration rates were correlated with production of causally unnecessary actions, but in the Indigenous Australian children only. This study highlights how children employ imitation and collaboration when acquiring new skills and how the latter can be influenced by task structure and cultural background.
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The nature of culture : an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals
- Haidle, Miriam Noël, Bolus, Michael, Collard, Mark, Conard, Nicholas, Garafoli, Duilio, Lombard, Marlize, Nowell, April, Tennie, Claudio, Whiten, Andrew
- Authors: Haidle, Miriam Noël , Bolus, Michael , Collard, Mark , Conard, Nicholas , Garafoli, Duilio , Lombard, Marlize , Nowell, April , Tennie, Claudio , Whiten, Andrew
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Culture , Human culture , Expansion of human cultural capacities model
- Identifier: uj:5628 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14963
- Description: Tracing the evolution of human culture through time is arguably one of the most controversial and complex scholarly endeavors, and a broad evolutionary analysis of how symbolic, linguistic, and cultural capacities emerged and developed in our species is lacking. Here we present a model that, in broad terms, aims to explain the evolution and portray the expansion of human cultural capacities (the EECC model), that can be used as a point of departure for further multidisciplinary discussion and more detailed investigation. The EECC model is designed to be flexible, and can be refined to accommodate future archaeological.
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- Authors: Haidle, Miriam Noël , Bolus, Michael , Collard, Mark , Conard, Nicholas , Garafoli, Duilio , Lombard, Marlize , Nowell, April , Tennie, Claudio , Whiten, Andrew
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Culture , Human culture , Expansion of human cultural capacities model
- Identifier: uj:5628 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14963
- Description: Tracing the evolution of human culture through time is arguably one of the most controversial and complex scholarly endeavors, and a broad evolutionary analysis of how symbolic, linguistic, and cultural capacities emerged and developed in our species is lacking. Here we present a model that, in broad terms, aims to explain the evolution and portray the expansion of human cultural capacities (the EECC model), that can be used as a point of departure for further multidisciplinary discussion and more detailed investigation. The EECC model is designed to be flexible, and can be refined to accommodate future archaeological.
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