The Double-edged Sword of Pedagogy: Instruction limits spontaneous exploration and discovery

Motivated by computational analyses, we look at how teaching affects exploration and discovery. In Experiment 1, we investigated children’s exploratory play after an adult pedagogically demonstrated a function of a toy, after an interrupted pedagogical demonstration, after a naïve adult demonstrated...

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Main Authors: Bonawitz, Elizabeth, Shafto, Patrick, Gweon, Hyowon, Schulz, Laura E., Goodman, Noah D., Spelke, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60992
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039

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