Browsing by Keywords "Over-imitation"

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Cultural affordances: Does model reliability affect over-imitation in preschoolers

Jedediah W.P., Allen; Sümer, Cansu; Ilgaz, Hande (Elsevier Ltd, 2021-03)

One general perspective on why children over-imitate is that they are learning about the normatively correct way of doing things. If correct, then characteristics of the demonstrator should be relevant. Accordingly, the ...
Social meta-learning: learning how to make use of others as a resource for further learning

Allen, Jedediah W. P.; Ilgaz, Hande (Springer, 2017)

While there is general consensus that robust forms of social learning enable the possibility of human cultural evolution, the specific nature, origins, and development of such learning mechanisms remains an open issue. The ...