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THE EFFECT OF CERTAIN IMITATIVE CUES UPON THE LEARNING OF RESPONSE PATTERNS
Abstract
Most of the research on imitative behavior has been concerned with specifying variables related to a tendency to imitate or not to imitate. Consequently, in the bulk of the empirical investigations in this area it is impossible to distinguish between two aspects of imitative behavior: (1) whether the behavior is "personality-oriented" in so far as, via some process such as "identification", it reduces anxiety or serves to terminate some other noxious stimulus; or (2) whether the behavior is"problem-oriented" in so far as it allows one to cope with a situation demanding a solution. In other words, in most of the re it is impossible to evaluate the importance of objective, situation cues which indicate the external "correctness" of an imitative act.
Subject Area
Experimental psychology|Psychology
Recommended Citation
MALEY, ROGER FREDRICK, "THE EFFECT OF CERTAIN IMITATIVE CUES UPON THE LEARNING OF RESPONSE PATTERNS" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6715828.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6715828