Dear BERGers,
This week at BERG we have Kirsten Blakey sharing with us her knowledge on
"Development of strategic social information seeking in children" (abstract
below). Come along to find out more!
The meeting will be held on Wednesday 20th November in the Psychology department common
room (3A94) at 5:30pm with drinks and nibbles provided.
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Best wishes,
Jade
Development of strategic social information seeking in children
Selective social learning allows human adults to filter out less useful aspects of
available information, enabling them to actively seek and effectively use that which is
most relevant. Human adults may therefore demonstrate key differences in the way that they
attend to and use social information compared to children and non-humans. However, the
majority of developmental social learning paradigms examine children's responses to
information specifically provided for use in a particular task, but do not address
children's ability to seek out the information for themselves. I will discuss a recent
study that aimed to address this gap in our understanding regarding age-related changes in
children's ability to seek out as well as use appropriate social information.
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Jade Hooper | Research Assistant and PhD Candidate - Faculty of Social Science |
3T37, RG Bomont Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA | E-mail:
jade.hooper@stir.ac.uk<mailto:jade.hooper@stir.ac.uk> |
Web:http://www.stir.ac.uk/social-science/
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