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Lancaster Glossary of Child Development

Emulation

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

Duplicating the outcomes produced by another, but using different actions to reach this same end (i.e., goal emulation). Sometimes referred to affordance learning.  It appears that the great apes are capable of emulation, but not action-level imitation. 

See Affordance, Correspondence problem, Imitation, Newborn imitation, Observational learning

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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