Cultural Transmission : A View From Chimpanzees and Human Infants  

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Tomasello, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 32 no. 2 (Mar. 2001), page 135-146.
Topik: INFANT; cross cultural studies; monkeys & apes; adaptation; babies
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Human beings are biologically adapted for culture in ways that other primates are not, as evidenced most clearly by the fact that only human cultural traditions accumulate modification over historical time (the ratchet effect). The key adaptation is one that enables individuals to understand other individuals as international agents like the self. This species - unique form of social cognition emerges in human ontogeny at around 1 year of age as infants begin to engage with other persons in various kinds of joint attentional activities involving gaze following, social referencing, and gestural comunication. Young children's joint attentional skills then engender some uniquely powerful forms of cultural learning, enabling the acquisition of language, discourse skills, tool use practices, and many other conventional activities. These novel forms of cultural learning allow human beings to pool their cognitive resources both contemporaneously and over historical time in ways that are unique in the animal kingdom.

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