SOCIAL LEARNING AND SOCIAL COGNITION: THE ROLE OF PEDAGOGY

• Authors: Csibra Gergely , Gergely Gyorgy
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The authores propose that humans are adapted to transfer knowledge to, and receive knowledge from, conspecifics by teaching. This adaptation, which they call 'pedagogy', involves the emergence of a special communication system that does not presuppose either language or high-level theory of mind, but could itself provide a basis facilitating the development of these human-specific abilities both in phylogenetic and ontogenetic terms. They speculate that tool manufacturing and mediated tool use made the evolution of such a new social learning mechanism necessary. However, the main body of evidence supporting this hypothesis comes from developmental psychology. They argue that many central phenomena of human infant social cognition that may seem puzzling in the light of their standard functional explanation can be more coherently and plausibly interpreted as reflecting the adaptations to receive knowledge from social partners through teaching.

Keywords

EN

COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL LEARNING; IMITATION; INFANCY; TEACHING

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-30
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Csibra Gergely

author

Gergely Gyorgy

• Gergely Csibra, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07391