The effect of narrative cues on infants' imitation from television and picture books |
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Authors: | Simcock Gabrielle Garrity Kara Barr Rachel |
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Affiliation: | Early Cognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. g.simcock@psy.uq.edu.au |
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Abstract: | Infants can imitate a novel action sequence from television and picture books, yet there has been no direct comparison of infants' imitation from the 2 types of media. Varying the narrative cues available during the demonstration and test, the current experiments measured 18- and 24-month-olds' imitation from television and picture books. Infants imitated from both media types when full narrative cues (Experiment 1; N = 76) or empty, meaningless narration (Experiment 2; N = 135) accompanied the demonstrations, but they imitated more from television than books. In Experiment 3 (N = 27), infants imitated from a book based on narration alone, without the presence of pictures. These results are discussed in relation to age-related changes in cognitive flexibility and infants' emerging symbolic understanding. |
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