Lillard Angeline, Nishida Tracy, Massaro Davide, Vaish Amrisha, Ma Lili, McRoberts Gerald
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia.
Infancy. 2007 Jan 1;11(1):1-30. doi: 10.1207/s15327078in1101_1.
Participation in imagined worlds is a hallmark of the human species, and yet we know little about the context of its early emergence. The experiments reported here replicated and extended in 2 directions Lillard and Witherington's (2004) study of how mothers pretend to have snacks, across different ages of children (15- to 24-month-olds, Experiment 1) and to a different scenario (personal grooming, Experiment 2). Mothers' pretend behaviors changed little as infants aged, but there were some scenario differences. Most striking in this research was the consistency with which particular maternal pretend behaviors were associated with children engaging in pretense behaviors and smiling. The findings are discussed with reference to the child's emerging skills in joint attention and social referencing.
参与想象世界是人类的一个标志，但我们对其早期出现的背景却知之甚少。本文所报告的实验在两个方向上重复并扩展了利拉德和威瑟林顿（2004年）关于母亲如何假装吃零食的研究，涉及不同年龄段的儿童（15至24个月大，实验1），并采用了不同的场景（个人梳妆，实验2）。随着婴儿年龄的增长，母亲的假装行为变化不大，但存在一些场景差异。这项研究中最引人注目的是，特定的母亲假装行为与孩子参与假装行为和微笑之间的一致性。我们将结合孩子在共同注意和社会参照方面新兴的技能来讨论这些发现。
