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Children request teaching when asking for names of objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Sidney Strauss  and
Margalit Ziv
Sidney Strauss
Affiliation:
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israelsidst@post.tau.ac.ilmziv@post.tau.ac.il
Margalit Ziv
Affiliation:
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israelsidst@post.tau.ac.ilmziv@post.tau.ac.il
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Abstract

We propose that in addition to children's requests for word names being a reflection of an understanding of the referential nature of words, they may also be requests for adult's teaching. These possible requests for teaching among toddlers, along with other indications, suggest that teaching may be a natural cognition that may be related to the development of theory of mind.

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Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1118 - 1119
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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