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 demons...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bonawitz, Elizabeth (Author), Shafto, Patrick (Author), Gweon, Hyowon (Contributor), Schulz, Laura E. (Contributor), Goodman, Noah D. (Author), Spelke, Elizabeth (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V., 2011-02-18T20:31:35Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext