Three- and 4-year-olds encode modeled actions in two ways leading to immediate imitation and delayed emulation

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 834-840

  Simpson, Andrew ^a   Riggs, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child development; Emulation; Imitation; Observational learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955743376     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023270     Document Type: Article

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