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March, Joshua, Rigby Dames, Brier, Caldwell, Christine, Doherty, Martin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-7892 and Rafetseder, Eva
(2020)
The role of context in "overimitation": Evidence of movement-based goal inference in young children.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 190.
ISSN 0022-0965
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Abstract
Children, as well as adults, often imitate causally unnecessary actions. Three experiments investigated whether such “over-imitation” occurs because these actions are interpreted as performed for the movement's sake (i.e., having a “movement-based” goal). Experiment 1 (N = 30, 2–5-year-olds) replicated previous findings; children imitated actions with no goal more precisely than actions with external goals. Experiment 2 (N = 58, 2–5-year-olds) confirmed that the difference between these conditions was not due to the absence/presence of external goals but rather was also found when actions brought about external goals in a clearly inefficient way. Experiment 3 (N = 36, 3–5-year-olds) controlled for the possibility that imitation fidelity was affected by the number of actions and objects present during the demonstration and confirmed that identical actions were imitated more precisely when they appeared to be more inefficient toward an external goal. Our findings suggest that movement-based goal inference encourages over-imitation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | action understanding,cues,children,context,gestures,goal inference,infancy,irrelevant actions,imitation,intention,normativity,overimitation,preschoolers,tool use |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2019 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 05:13 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72260 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104713 |
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