Imitation in Human and Animal Behavior

Author:   Wanda Wyrwicka
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9781560002468


Pages:   110
Publication Date:   30 January 1995
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Wanda Wyrwicka
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781560002468


ISBN 10:   1560002468
Pages:   110
Publication Date:   30 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Imitative Behavior in Human Neonates; 2: Imitation in Growing Children Under Three Years of Age; 3: Imitation in Children Over Three Years of Age; 4: Role of Imitation in Cognitive Development and in the Therapy of Phobias; 5: Complex Cases of Imitation; 6: Effect of Companions on Feeding; 7: Role of the Mother in Initiation of Eating New Food by Weanling Kittens; 8: Imitation of the Mother’s Improper Food Selection by Weanling Kittens; 9: Learning by Observation; 10: Inhibition of Imitative Behavior; 11: Summary and Theoretical Considerations

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<p> This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. <p> --C. R. Timmons, Choice


This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. --C. R. Timmons, Choice


This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. --C. R. Timmons, Choice This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. --C. R. Timmons, Choice -This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective.- --C. R. Timmons, Choice


This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. </p> --C. R. Timmons, <em>Choice</em></p>


-This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective.- --C. R. Timmons, Choice This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. --C. R. Timmons, Choice This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective. --C. R. Timmons, Choice


-This slim volume presents an overview of selected cases of imitative behavior from the human life-span and the animal experimental literatures. Although not a comprehensive treatment (the book contains 93 references, the most recent of which is 1990), it effectively illustrates the wide variety of approaches to the study of imitation... [S]tudents of either human or animal imitative behavior will benefit from the handy summaries of examples from the other perspective.- --C. R. Timmons, Choice


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Wanda Wyrwicka is senior scientist from the University of California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. She is author of The Development of Food Preferences, The Mechanisms of Conditioned Behavior, and Brain and Feeding Behavior.

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