Should I learn from you? Seeing expectancy violations about action efficiency hinders social learning in infancy

2022/09/30 by Marc Colomer, Amanda Woodward, Amanda L. Woodward · 15 citations
Psychology · #Action (physics) #Action Observation and Synchronization #Artificial intelligence #Association (psychology) #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Computer science #Developmental psychology #Expectancy theory #Experiential learning #Language Development and Disorders #Object (grammar) #Observational learning #Psychology #Social learning #Social psychology #Surprise

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105293

published in Cognition 230, 105293 (Elsevier BV)

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