Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Dev Sci. 2010 Jan 1;13(1):62-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00860.x.
Previous research has shown that young children commit perseverative errors from their observation of another person's actions. The present study examined how social observation would lead children to perseverative tendencies, using a robot. In Experiment 1, preschoolers watched either a human model or a robot sorting cards according to one dimension (e.g. shape), after which they were asked to sort according to a different dimension (e.g. colour). The results showed that children's behaviours in the task were significantly influenced by the human model's actions but not by the robot's actions. Experiment 2 excluded the possibility that children's behaviours were not affected by the robot's actions because they did not observe its actions. We concluded that children's perseverative errors from social observation resulted, in part, from their socio-cognitive ability.
先前的研究表明，幼儿会从他人的行为观察中犯坚持性错误。本研究使用机器人考察了社会观察是如何导致儿童产生坚持性倾向的。在实验 1 中，学前儿童观察了人类模型或机器人根据一个维度（例如形状）对卡片进行分类后，要求他们根据另一个维度（例如颜色）对卡片进行分类。结果表明，儿童在任务中的行为受到人类模型行为的显著影响，但不受机器人行为的影响。实验 2 排除了儿童行为不受机器人行为影响的可能性，因为他们没有观察到机器人的行为。我们的结论是，儿童从社会观察中产生的坚持性错误部分是由于他们的社会认知能力。
