dc.contributor.author | Gweon, Hyowon | |
dc.contributor.author | Schulz, Laura E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-04T22:32:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-04T22:32:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-01 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2018-04 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0009-3920 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123111 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigated whether children learn from exploration and act as effective informants by providing informative demonstrations tailored to observers’ goals and competence. Children (4.0–6.9 years, N = 98) explored a causally ambiguous toy to discover its causal structure and then demonstrated the toy to a naive observer. Children provided more costly and informative evidence when the observer wanted to learn about the toy than observe its effects (Experiment 1) and when the observer was ordinary than exceptionally intelligent (Experiment 2). Relative to the evidence they generated during exploration, children produced fewer, less costly actions when the observer wanted or needed less evidence. Children understand the difference between acting‐to‐learn and acting‐to‐inform; after learning from exploration, they consider others’ goals and competence to provide “uninstructed instruction”. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (Grant CCF‐1231216) | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13059 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Prof. Schulz via Courtney Crummett | en_US |
dc.title | From Exploration to Instruction: Children Learn From Exploration and Tailor Their Demonstrations to Observers’ Goals and Competence | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Gweon, Hyowon and Laura Schulz. "From Exploration to Instruction: Children Learn From Exploration and Tailor Their Demonstrations to Observers’ Goals and Competence." Child Development 90, 1 (January/February 2019): e148-e164 © 2019 Society for Research in Child Development | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Child Development | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.date.submission | 2019-12-02T16:26:34Z | |
mit.journal.volume | 90 | en_US |
mit.journal.issue | 1 | en_US |