The ontogeny of cultural learning
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Tomasello, M
Published in: Current Opinion in Psychology
April 1, 2016
All primates engage in one or another form of social learning. Humans engage in cultural learning. From very early in ontogeny human infants and young children do not just learn useful things from others, they conform to others in order to affiliate with them and to identify with the cultural group. The cultural group normatively expects such conformity, and adults actively instruct children so as to ensure it. Young children learn from this instruction how the world is viewed and how it works in their culture. These special forms of cultural learning enable powerful and species-unique processes of cumulative cultural evolution.
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April 1, 2016
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Tomasello, M. (2016). The ontogeny of cultural learning. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.008
Tomasello, M. “The ontogeny of cultural learning.” Current Opinion in Psychology 8 (April 1, 2016): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.008.
Tomasello M. The ontogeny of cultural learning. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2016 Apr 1;8:1–4.
Tomasello, M. “The ontogeny of cultural learning.” Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 8, Apr. 2016, pp. 1–4. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.008.
Tomasello M. The ontogeny of cultural learning. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2016 Apr 1;8:1–4.
Published In
Current Opinion in Psychology
DOI
ISSN
2352-250X
Publication Date
April 1, 2016
Volume
8
Start / End Page
1 / 4
Related Subject Headings
- 52 Psychology