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The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution, and Brain Bases » Read Now
by Andrew N. Meltzoff, Wolfgang Prinz. 353 pgs.

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Modern research demonstrates that imitation is more complex and interesting than classical theories proposed. Monkeys do not imitate whereas humans are prolific imitators. This book provides an analysis of empirical work on imitation and shows how much can be learned through interdisciplinary...
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Modern research demonstrates that imitation is more complex and interesting than classical theories proposed. Monkeys do not imitate whereas humans are prolific imitators. This book provides an analysis of empirical work on imitation and shows how much can be learned through interdisciplinary research ranging from cells to individuals, apes to men, and babies to adults. Covering diverse perspectives on a great puzzle of human psychology, the book is multidisciplinary in its approach to revealing how and why we imitate.
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Child's Play: Myth, Mimesis and Make-Believe » Read Now
by L. R. Goldman. 306 pgs.

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This innovative book finally takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth ethnographies of children's play. In examining the subject from a cross-cultural perspective, the author argues that our understanding of the way children transform their environment to create make-believe...
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This innovative book finally takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth ethnographies of children's play. In examining the subject from a cross-cultural perspective, the author argues that our understanding of the way children transform their environment to create make-believe is enhanced by viewing their creations as oral poetry. The result is a richly detailed 'thick description' of how pretence is socially mediated and linguistically constructed, how children make sense of their own play, how play relates to other imaginative genres in Huli life, and the relationship between play and cosmology.Informed by theoretical approaches in the anthropology of play, developmental and child psychology, philosophy and phenomenology and drawing on ethnographic data from Melanesia, the book analyzes the sources for imitation, the kinds of identities and roles emulated, and the structure of collaborative make-believe talk to reveal the complex way in which children invoke their experiences of the world and re-invent them as types of virtual reality. Particular importance is placed on how the figures of the ogre and trickster are articulated. The author demonstrates that while the concept of 'imagination' has been the cornerstone of Western intellectual traditions from Plato to Postmodernism, models of child fantasy play have always intruded into such theorizing because of children's unique capacity to throw into relief our understanding of the relationship between representation and reality.
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Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood (1962) » Read Now
by Jean Piaget, C. Gattegno, F. M. Hodgson. 296 pgs.

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Imitation: A Developmental Perspective (1978) » Read Now
by Victoria Seitz, Regina Yando, Edward Zigler. 212 pgs.

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Development in Infancy: An Introduction ("Classical and Operant Learning and Imitation: Three Types of Learning" begins on p. 224) » Read Now
by Marc H. Bornstein, Michael E. Lamb, Douglas M. Teti. 502 pgs.

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This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect current thinking and...
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This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect current thinking and research in the field, and while classic studies continue to be cited, the text emphasizes studies published since the late 1990s. The authors have worked to maintain the readability for which this classic textbook has been known. This edition continues to be appropriate for use in classes at all levels-undergraduate and graduate-as well as in various disciplines-psychology, education, child development, nursing, and social work. The fourth edition features a number of improvements: the literature review has been thoroughly updated to reflect the results of new research; new figures have been provided to better explain important concepts and the results of recent studies; implications for practical applications and social policy have been emphasized throughout; the writing style has been revised to make the book attractive to students from diverse academic backgrounds; and orienting questions have been provided at the beginning of each chapter to facilitate understanding and learning.
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An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development ("Early Imitation of Voices and Gestures" begins on p. 61 and "Imitating Actions on Objects" begins on p. 70) » Read Now
by Eleanor J. Gibson, Anne D. Pick. 237 pgs.

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The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their...
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The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their environments and extract information from them before language is available. The ecological approach to perceiving-defined as "a theory about perceiving by active creatures who look and listen and move around" was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last book in 1979. Until now, no comprehensive theoretical statement of ecological development has been published since Eleanor Gibson's Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969). In An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, distinguished experimental psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick provide a unique theoretical framework for the ecological approach to understanding perceptual learning and development. Perception, in accordance with James Gibson's views, entails a reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her environment: the environment provides resources and opportunities for the person, and the person gets information from and acts on the environment. The concept of affordance is central to this idea; the person acts on what the environment affords, as it is appropriate. This extraordinary volume covers the development of perception in detail from birth through toddlerhood, beginning with the development of communication, going on to perceiving and acting on objects, and then to locomotion. It is more than a presentation of facts about perception as it develops. It outlines the ecological approach and shows how it underlies "higher" cognitive processes, such as concept formation, as well as discovery of the basic affordances of the environment. This impressive work should serve as the capstone for Eleanor J. Gibson's distinguished career as a developmental and experimental psychologist.
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Mothers' and Infants' Spontaneous Vocal, Verbal and Action Imitation during the Second Year, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly » Read Now
by Elise Frank Masur, Jennifer E. Rodemaker. 21 pgs.

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Infants' Spontaneous Imitation of Novel versus Familiar Words: Relations to Observational and Maternal Report Measures of Their Lexicons, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly » Read Now
by Doreen L. Eichorst, Elise Frank Masur. 22 pgs.

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How Children Learn to Speak (1959) (Chap. V "The Beginning of Imitation") » Read Now
by M. M. Lewis. 143 pgs.

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Infant Imitation of Peer and Adult Models: Evidence for a Peer Model Advantage, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly » Read Now
by Robina E. Gul, Brigette Oliver Ryalls, Kenneth R. Ryalls. 15 pgs.

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Exploring the Roles of Peer and Adult Video Models for Infant Imitation, in Journal of Genetic Psychology » Read Now
by Eugene Abravanel, Nanette G. Deyong. 18 pgs.

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Motor Imitation in Young Children with Autism: What's the Object?, in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology » Read Now
by Cynthia D. Littleford, Opal Y. Ousley, Wendy L. Stone. 11 pgs.

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Peer Imitation: Increasing Social Interactions in Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities in Inclusive Preschool Classrooms, in Topics in Early Childhood Special Education » Read Now
by Ann N. Garfinkle, Ilene S. Schwartz. 13 pgs.

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