Preschoolers' Motivation to Over-Imitate Humans and Robots.
Child Dev
; 92(1): 222-238, 2021 01.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32856290
ABSTRACT
From preschool age, humans tend to imitate causally irrelevant actions-they over-imitate. This study investigated whether children over-imitate even when they know a more efficient task solution and whether they imitate irrelevant actions equally from a human compared to a robot model. Five-to-six-year-olds (N = 107) watched either a robot or human retrieve a reward from a puzzle box. First a model demonstrated an inefficient (Trial 1), then an efficient (Trial 2), then again the inefficient strategy (Trial 3). Subsequent to each demonstration, children copied whichever strategy had been demonstrated regardless of whether the model was a human or a robot. Results indicate that over-imitation can be socially motivated, and that humanoid robots and humans are equally likely to elicit this behavior.
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Assunto principal:
Recompensa
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Robótica
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Jogos Recreativos
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Comportamento Imitativo
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Motivação
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Child Dev
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article