Infants Show Stability of Goal-Directed Imitation

Autor/inn/en	Sakkalou, Elena; Ellis-Davies, Kate; Fowler, Nia C.; Hilbrink, Elma E.; Gattis, Merideth
Titel	Infants Show Stability of Goal-Directed Imitation
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 114 (2013) 1, S.1-9 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.005
Schlagwörter	Imitation; Infants; Goal Orientation; Experimental Psychology; Child Psychology; Comparative Analysis; Cues; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Experimentelle Psychologie; Kinderpsychologie; Stichwort; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Previous studies have reported that infants selectively reproduce observed actions and have argued that this selectivity reflects understanding of intentions and goals, or goal-directed imitation. We reasoned that if selective imitation of goal-directed actions reflects understanding of intentions, infants should demonstrate stability across perceptually and causally dissimilar imitation tasks. To this end, we employed a longitudinal within-participants design to compare the performance of 37 infants on two imitation tasks, with one administered at 13 months and one administered at 14 months. Infants who selectively imitated goal-directed actions in an object-cued task at 13 months also selectively imitated goal-directed actions in a vocal-cued task at 14 months. We conclude that goal-directed imitation reflects a general ability to interpret behavior in terms of mental states. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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