Hoicka, E., Powell, S., Knight, J. et al. (1 more author) (2018) Two-year-olds can socially learn to think divergently. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36 (1). pp. 22-36. ISSN 0261-510X
Abstract
This study aimed to discover whether 2-year-olds can socially learn to think divergently. Two-year-olds (N=22) who saw an experimenter model a high level of divergent thinking on the Unusual Box Test (modeling 25 different actions, once each) went on to demonstrate a higher level of divergent thinking themselves than (N=22) children who saw a low level of modeling (5 different actions, each), where divergent thinking was measured by the number of different actions children produced that had not been modeled by the experimenter. Additionally, all children in both High and Low Divergence conditions had higher divergent thinking than imitation scores, where imitation involved copying the experimenter’s previous actions. This is the first experiment to show that 2-year-olds’ divergent thinking can be increased, and that 2-year-olds do so by socially learning to think more divergently.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The British Psychological Society. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Divergent Thinking; Imitation; Individual Learning; Social Learning; Creativity; Exploration |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2017 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2023 16:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/bjdp.12199 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119145 |