11-month-olds recognize the teacher-student relationship.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how preverbal infants perceive and differentiate the roles of teachers and students can provide profound insights into the early stages of human learning and cognition. We thus developed a paradigm based on the task order and the interactive position to determine if infants understand teacher-student relationships. Five experiments (N = 104), reveal that, after watching the teacher agent instruct the student agent from failure to success, 11-month-old infants looked at the teacher for a longer time when they watched a new naïve agent seek information in a new ambiguous scenario. Three additional control experiments excluded alternative interpretations of infants' selective looking, suggesting that agents' order-related actions influenced infants' identification. Another contr

SUBMITTER: Ling R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11424641 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature