Children’s Imitation is not Always Goal-Directed: Evidence from Goal Clarification Task
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10 Goal - directed imitation
“Stop copying me!” shrieks a friend’s seven-year-old as she admires her bead-bedecked image in the mirror. “I not copying!” responds her three-year-old sister indignantly, while fingering rows of beaded necklaces around her own neck. Anyone who has observed a similar scene knows that a heated argument follows about “what counts” as copying, and whether playing with beads might be the result of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: SOJ Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2374-6874
DOI: 10.15226/2374-6874/1/1/00109