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Precision of Imitation

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Psychology

 

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November 17, 2015

 

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The authors used children from a university nursery school and a research assistant that was uninformed of the authors' hypothesis. The authors propose that children go off their understanding of a task to guide how they reproduce the actions that are demonstrated to them. Rebecca Williamson and Ellen Markman of Stanford University conducted an experiment to support their hypothesis that children use imitation as a means to learn and that the more difficult the task the more the children will make up to compensate for their underdeveloped memory capacity...
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According to Williamson and Marksman's' theory, when a task is given to a child and it is simple the child can mimic the task in the exact manner used in the demonstration. However, when a child tries to mimic a more sophisticated task the child cannot remember all the details to perform the task. As a result the child copies the actions of the task but only the critical elements of that task...
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