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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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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Young children’s tool innovation across culture : affordance visibility matters
- Neldner, Karri, Mushin, Ilana, Nielsen, Mark
- Authors: Neldner, Karri , Mushin, Ilana , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Cross-cultural , Tool manufacture , Tool innovation
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/259831 , uj:27346 , Citation: Neldner, K., Mushin, I. & Nielsen, M. 2017. Young children’s tool innovation across culture : affordance visibility matters.
- Description: Abstract: Young children typically demonstrate low rates of tool innovation. However, previous studies have limited children’s performance by presenting tools with opaque affordances. In an attempt to scaffold children’s understanding of what constitutes an appropriate tool within an innovation task we compared tools in which the focal affordance was visible to those in which it was opaque. To evaluate possible cultural specificity, data collection was undertaken in a Western urban population and a remote Indigenous community. As expected affordance visibility altered innovation rates: young children were more likely to innovate on a tool that had visible affordances than one with concealed affordances. Furthermore, innovation rates were higher than those reported in previous innovation studies. Cultural background did not affect children’s rates of tool innovation. It is suggested that new methods for testing tool innovation in children must be developed in order to broaden our knowledge of young children’s tool innovation capabilities.
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- Authors: Neldner, Karri , Mushin, Ilana , Nielsen, Mark
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Cross-cultural , Tool manufacture , Tool innovation
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/259831 , uj:27346 , Citation: Neldner, K., Mushin, I. & Nielsen, M. 2017. Young children’s tool innovation across culture : affordance visibility matters.
- Description: Abstract: Young children typically demonstrate low rates of tool innovation. However, previous studies have limited children’s performance by presenting tools with opaque affordances. In an attempt to scaffold children’s understanding of what constitutes an appropriate tool within an innovation task we compared tools in which the focal affordance was visible to those in which it was opaque. To evaluate possible cultural specificity, data collection was undertaken in a Western urban population and a remote Indigenous community. As expected affordance visibility altered innovation rates: young children were more likely to innovate on a tool that had visible affordances than one with concealed affordances. Furthermore, innovation rates were higher than those reported in previous innovation studies. Cultural background did not affect children’s rates of tool innovation. It is suggested that new methods for testing tool innovation in children must be developed in order to broaden our knowledge of young children’s tool innovation capabilities.
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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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