{"id":8184,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/imitation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:56","slug":"imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/imitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Involves observing and duplicating a model performing a behavior. &nbsp;More formally, imitation is said to occur when three conditions are met:&nbsp;1. the observer produces similar behavior to the model, 2. the perception of an act causes the observer&#8217;s response, and 3. the equivalence between the acts of self and other plays a role in generating the response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Active intermodal mapping (AIM), <a href=\"common_coding\">Common coding<\/a>, <a href=\"correspondence_problem\">Correspondence problem<\/a>, <a href=\"emulation\">Emulation<\/a>, <a href=\"fisher-s_theory_of_evolutionary_mimicry\">Fisher&#8217;s theory of evolutionary mimicry<\/a>, <a href=\"inferior_parietal_lobe_-ipl-\">Inferior parietal lobe (IPL)<\/a>, <a href=\"maternal_responsiveness\">Maternal responsiveness<\/a>, Medial (pre-) cortex, <a href=\"newborn_imitation\">Newborn imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"observational_learning\">Observational learning<\/a>, <a href=\"recall_memory\">Recall memory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involves observing and duplicating a model performing a behavior. &nbsp;More formally, imitation is said to occur when three conditions are met:&nbsp;1. the observer produces similar behavior to the model, 2. the perception of an act causes the observer&#8217;s response, and 3. the equivalence between the acts of self and other plays a role in generating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/imitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imitation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}