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Direct linkEsseily, Rana; Rat-Fischer, Lauriane; O'Regan, Kevin; Fagard, Jacqueline – Cognitive Development, 2013
Our aim was to investigate why 16-month-old infants fail to master a novel tool-use action via observational learning. We hypothesized that 16-month-olds' difficulties may be due to not understanding the goal of the observed action. To test this hypothesis, we investigated whether showing infants an explicit demonstration of the goal of the action…
Descriptors: Infants, Observational Learning, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Hypothesis Testing
