Preschool’s children’s learning proclivities: when the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance
- Wilks, Matti, Kapitány, Rohan, Nielsen, Mark
- Authors: Wilks, Matti , Kapitány, Rohan , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/122786 , uj:20704 , Citation: Wilks, M., Kapitány, R. & Nielsen, M. 2016. Preschool’s children’s learning proclivities: when the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance.
- Description: Abstract: Previous research has demonstrated an efficiency bias in social learning whereby young children preferentially imitate the functional actions of a successful group member over an individual. Our aim in the current research was to examine whether this bias remains when actions are presented as conventional rather than instrumental. Preschool children watched videos of an individual and a group member. The individual always demonstrated a successful instrumental action and the group member an unsuccessful action that was either causally transparent or opaque. Highlighting the selective nature of social learning, children copied the group at higher rates when the demonstrated actions were causally opaque than when they were causally transparent. This research draws attention to the influence of conventional/ritual-like actions on young children’s learning choices and emphasizes the role 31 of this orientation in the development of human-specific cumulative culture.
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- Authors: Wilks, Matti , Kapitány, Rohan , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/122786 , uj:20704 , Citation: Wilks, M., Kapitány, R. & Nielsen, M. 2016. Preschool’s children’s learning proclivities: when the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance.
- Description: Abstract: Previous research has demonstrated an efficiency bias in social learning whereby young children preferentially imitate the functional actions of a successful group member over an individual. Our aim in the current research was to examine whether this bias remains when actions are presented as conventional rather than instrumental. Preschool children watched videos of an individual and a group member. The individual always demonstrated a successful instrumental action and the group member an unsuccessful action that was either causally transparent or opaque. Highlighting the selective nature of social learning, children copied the group at higher rates when the demonstrated actions were causally opaque than when they were causally transparent. This research draws attention to the influence of conventional/ritual-like actions on young children’s learning choices and emphasizes the role 31 of this orientation in the development of human-specific cumulative culture.
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Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities
- Redshaw, Jonathan, Suddendorf, Thomas, Neldner, Karri, Wilks, Matti, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana, Nielsen, Mark
- Authors: Redshaw, Jonathan , Suddendorf, Thomas , Neldner, Karri , Wilks, Matti , Tomaselli, Keyan , Mushin, Ilana , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/276505 , uj:29591 , Citation: Redshaw, J. et al. 2018. Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities.
- Description: Abstract: This study examined future-oriented behaviour in children (3-6 years; N = 193) from three diverse societies – one industrialised Western city (Brisbane, Australia) and two small, geographically isolated communities (Indigenous Australians and South African Bushmen). Children had the opportunity to prepare for two alternative versions of an immediate future event. Some 3-year-olds from all cultures performed well, and a majority of the oldest children from each culture prepared for both possibilities on all six trials. Although there were some cultural differences in the youngest age groups that approached ceiling performance, the overall results indicate that children across these communities become able to prepare for alternative futures during early childhood. This acquisition period is therefore not contingent on Western upbringing and may instead indicate normal cognitive maturation.
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- Authors: Redshaw, Jonathan , Suddendorf, Thomas , Neldner, Karri , Wilks, Matti , Tomaselli, Keyan , Mushin, Ilana , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/276505 , uj:29591 , Citation: Redshaw, J. et al. 2018. Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities.
- Description: Abstract: This study examined future-oriented behaviour in children (3-6 years; N = 193) from three diverse societies – one industrialised Western city (Brisbane, Australia) and two small, geographically isolated communities (Indigenous Australians and South African Bushmen). Children had the opportunity to prepare for two alternative versions of an immediate future event. Some 3-year-olds from all cultures performed well, and a majority of the oldest children from each culture prepared for both possibilities on all six trials. Although there were some cultural differences in the youngest age groups that approached ceiling performance, the overall results indicate that children across these communities become able to prepare for alternative futures during early childhood. This acquisition period is therefore not contingent on Western upbringing and may instead indicate normal cognitive maturation.
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Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities
- Redshaw, Jonathan, Suddendorf, Thomas, Neldner, Karri, Wilks, Matti, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana, Nielsen, Mark
- Authors: Redshaw, Jonathan , Suddendorf, Thomas , Neldner, Karri , Wilks, Matti , Tomaselli, Keyan , Mushin, Ilana , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407163 , uj:34261 , Citation: Redshaw, J. et al. 2019: Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities.
- Description: Abstract: This study examined future-oriented behaviour in children (3-6 years; N = 193) from three diverse societies – one industrialised Western city (Brisbane, Australia) and two small, geographically isolated communities (Indigenous Australians and South African Bushmen). Children had the opportunity to prepare for two alternative versions of an immediate future event. Some 3-year-olds from all cultures performed well, and a majority of the oldest children from each culture prepared for both possibilities on all six trials. Although there were some cultural differences in the youngest age groups that approached ceiling performance, the overall results indicate that children across these communities become able to prepare for alternative futures during early childhood. This acquisition period is therefore not contingent on Western upbringing and may instead indicate normal cognitive maturation.
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- Authors: Redshaw, Jonathan , Suddendorf, Thomas , Neldner, Karri , Wilks, Matti , Tomaselli, Keyan , Mushin, Ilana , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407163 , uj:34261 , Citation: Redshaw, J. et al. 2019: Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities.
- Description: Abstract: This study examined future-oriented behaviour in children (3-6 years; N = 193) from three diverse societies – one industrialised Western city (Brisbane, Australia) and two small, geographically isolated communities (Indigenous Australians and South African Bushmen). Children had the opportunity to prepare for two alternative versions of an immediate future event. Some 3-year-olds from all cultures performed well, and a majority of the oldest children from each culture prepared for both possibilities on all six trials. Although there were some cultural differences in the youngest age groups that approached ceiling performance, the overall results indicate that children across these communities become able to prepare for alternative futures during early childhood. This acquisition period is therefore not contingent on Western upbringing and may instead indicate normal cognitive maturation.
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