Brugger Amy, Lariviere Leslie Adams, Mumme Donna L, Bushnell Emily W
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Child Dev. 2007 May-Jun;78(3):806-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01034.x.
Two studies were conducted to investigate how 14- to 16-month-old infants select actions to imitate from the stream of events. In each study, an experimenter demonstrated two actions leading to an interesting effect. Aspects of the first action were manipulated and whether infants performed this action when given the objects was observed. In both studies, infants were more likely to imitate the first action when it was physically necessary to generate the effect, and in Study 2 they were also more likely to imitate the action when it was socially cued. It seems that infants' own knowledge of space and causality as well as their sensitivity to others' social signals both contribute to their tendency to imitate actions.
进行了两项研究，以调查14至16个月大的婴儿如何从一系列事件中选择要模仿的动作。在每项研究中，一名实验者演示了两个能产生有趣效果的动作。对第一个动作的各个方面进行了操控，并观察婴儿在拿到物体时是否会执行这个动作。在两项研究中，当第一个动作在实际操作上是产生该效果所必需的时候，婴儿更有可能模仿这个动作；在研究2中，当这个动作有社会线索提示时，婴儿也更有可能模仿。看来婴儿自身对空间和因果关系的认知以及他们对他人社会信号的敏感度，都促使他们倾向于模仿动作。
