Influence of Belief, Race, and Sex Similarities between Child Observers and Models on Attitudes and Observational Learning

Gottfried, Adele Eskeles; Katz, Phyllis A.

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“…Evidence that children preferentially learn from self-similar, particularly same sex models, is decades old (e.g., Rosekrans, 1967;Wolf, 1973) and recent work has shown that they preferentially acquire same-sex models' preferences (Shutts, et al, 2010). Moreover, children (Gottfried & Katz, 1977) and adults (e.g., Hilmert, et al, 2006) seem particularly disposed to learn from those who share their existing beliefs.…”

Section: Relative Model Bias: Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Culture-Gene Coevolutionary Theory and Children’s Selective Social Learning

Chudek¹,

Brosseau-Liard²,

Birch³

et al. 2013

Navigating the Social World

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Human cognition is unique in the degree to which it is shaped by social learning and cumulative cultural evolution. To learn efficiently children cannot just passively absorb all the information others provide, they need to be sensitive to when, if, and who is a good source of information. Several lines of theoretical and empirical inquiry are probing the cognitive mechanisms that underlie humans' flair for cultural learning. Among these, Culture-Gene Coevolutionary (CGC) theory focuses on the evolutionary dynamics our emerging cultural species faced and the learning biases that likely resulted from these selection pressures. CGC theory specifies a suite of hypotheses about which learning biases most effectively extract adaptive information. Here we review the intersection between these and developmental psychologists' recent empirical insights into children's social learning. We focus on two types of biases: 'relative model biases' which help learners identify which models are likely to possess information that is applicable for them given the particular social groups to which they belong; and 'absolute model biases' which help learners select those models most likely to possess objectively better information. In light of recent developmental findings we advocate CGC theory as a useful framework for organizing, understanding, and generating research on children's selective social learning.

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Section: Relative Model Bias: Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Culture-Gene Coevolutionary Theory and Children’s Selective Social Learning

Chudek¹,

Brosseau-Liard²,

Birch³

et al. 2013

Navigating the Social World

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Probing Racial Dilemmas in the Bluest Eye with the Spyglass of Psychology

Zebialowicz

Palasinski

2009

J Afr Am St

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The aim of this paper is to help rekindle interest in the employment of psychology as a tool for interpreting female characters' racial dilemmas found in the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Rather than questioning the already well-established methods of analyzing them, it illustrates how modern science of the human mind can offer extra dimensions of valuable insight, especially in terms of validating the behavior and thoughts of such characters. Such insight might offer new angles from which to look at them whilst showing the relevance of the issues these characters deal with to the contemporary society. Although the limits of this article prevent the full exhaustion of such proposed hybridization, it invites the consideration of a more eclectic approach, whose lack of popularity appears to be unjustified in view of potential benefits available.Keywords Black womanhood . Bluest Eye . Psychology . Racism "A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment" (Morrison 1999, p. 162).As literary works do not exist in vacuum, they function across diverse cultural, historical and social planes. The play of the text (both extratextuality and intratextuality),

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Observer Characteristics Related to the Imitation of a Creative Model

Halpin

Miller

et al. 1979

The Journal of Psychology

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Influence of Belief, Race, and Sex Similarities between Child Observers and Models on Attitudes and Observational Learning

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Culture-Gene Coevolutionary Theory and Children’s Selective Social Learning

Culture-Gene Coevolutionary Theory and Children’s Selective Social Learning

Probing Racial Dilemmas in the Bluest Eye with the Spyglass of Psychology

Observer Characteristics Related to the Imitation of a Creative Model

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