Watch and learn? Infants privilege efficiency over pedagogy during imitative learning

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 535-544

  Pinkham, Ashley M ^a   Jaswal, Vikram K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PEDAGOGICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 79960961373     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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