Doing the right thing: Infants' selection of actions to imitate from observed event sequences
Doing the right thing: Infants' selection of actions to imitate from observed event sequences
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01034.x
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Bushnell, Emily W.
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作者：
Brugger, Amy;Lariviere, Leslie Adams;Bushnell, Emily W.
两项研究旨在调查 14 至 16 个月大的婴儿如何从一系列事件中选择要模仿的动作。在每项研究中，实验者都展示了两种能产生有趣效果的行为。操纵第一个动作的各个方面，并观察婴儿在给予物体时是否执行该动作。在这两项研究中，当身体需要产生效果时，婴儿更有可能模仿第一个动作，而在研究 2 中，当有社交暗示时，他们也更有可能模仿该动作。婴儿自己对空间和因果关系的了解以及对他人社会信号的敏感性似乎都有助于他们模仿行为的倾向。
Two studies were conducted to investigate how 14- to 16-month-old infants select actions to imitate from the stream of events. In each study, an experimenter demonstrated two actions leading to an interesting effect. Aspects of the first action were manipulated and whether infants performed this action when given the objects was observed. In both studies, infants were more likely to imitate the first action when it was physically necessary to generate the effect, and in Study 2 they were also more likely to imitate the action when it was socially cued. It seems that infants' own knowledge of space and causality as well as their sensitivity to others' social signals both contribute to their tendency to imitate actions.