To imitate or innovate: A new look at children's social learning strategies

孩子们通过模仿别人学到了许多重要的东西。但是，我们如何在文化上合适的地方最好地促进这一点，或者鼓励创新来支持更普遍的学习？这个发展心理学项目旨在提供答案，通过新的实验和不同文化群体的比较来展示儿童如何在成为有价值的社区成员的同时获得技能。预期的结果包括完善核心发展心理学理论，引进新的实验技术，以及加强国际合作。这将为教育工作者、政策制定者、家长以及那些投资于理解和改善代际知识传播的人带来重大好处。

Children learn many important things by copying others. But how do we best facilitate this where it’s culturally appropriate or encourage innovation to support more general learning? This developmental psychology project aims to provide answers, using novel experiments and comparisons of different cultural groups to show how children acquire skills while becoming valued community members. Expected outcomes include the refinement of core developmental psychology theory, introduction of new experimental techniques, and strengthening of international collaborations. This should provide significant benefits to educators, policy makers, parents and those invested in understanding and improving the inter-generational transmission of knowledge.