Cooperative Activities in Young Children and Chimpanzees
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[1] Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Kreisfreie Stadt Leipzig, Alemania
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- Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 77, Nº. 3, 2006, págs. 640-663
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Human children 18–24 months of age and 3 young chimpanzees interacted in 4 cooperative activities with a human adult partner. The human children successfully participated in cooperative problem-solving activities and social games, whereas the chimpanzees were uninterested in the social games. As an experimental manipulation, in each task the adult partner stopped participating at a specific point during the activity. All children produced at least one communicative attempt to reengage him, perhaps suggesting that they were trying to reinstate a shared goal. No chimpanzee ever made any communicative attempt to reengage the partner. These results are interpreted as evidence for a uniquely human form of cooperative activity involving shared intentionality that emerges in the second year of life.
