To learn more about imitation, take a look at these resources:
Parent Map | Latest Findings in Baby Brain Science
Parenting Counts | Copycats: How Children Learn from the Actions of Others
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind (book)
ZERO TO THREE | Social and Emotional Development
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- Control group
- a group in a study who does not receive the treatment. The group serves as a comparison for the experimental group.
- Deferred imitation
- reproducing a behavior after a delay from its initial demonstration
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- a method used to measure electrical activity in the brain
- Generalization
- the ability to apply something learned in one situation to a new situation
- Imitation
- observing then reproducing, or copying, a behavior
- Mirror neurons
- a type of brain cell. Mirror neurons respond when an animal produces an action and when they observe another animal produce the same action.
- Theory of mind
- the awareness that other people can have different thoughts and feelings from one’s own
- Trial-and-error learning
- trying different actions until you perform the right one