Teaching strategies are shaped by experience with formal education: Experimental evidence from caregiver-child dyads in two Tannese communities.
Humans are extraordinary in the extent to which we rely on cumulative culture to act upon and make sense of our environment. Teaching is one social learning process thought to be fundamental to the evolution of cumulative culture as a means of adaptation in our species. However, the frequency of tea...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 792 - 807 |
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Apr2023
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