http://www.hellofelix.com/blog/2007/11/23/getting-to-the-bottom-of-overimitation/ A trustworthy resource for parents interested in understanding more about how children think, learn, and grow. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:39:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.hellofelix.com/blog/2007/11/23/getting-to-the-bottom-of-overimitation/comment-page-1/#comment-73 connie weber Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:39:37 +0000 http://www.hellofelix.com/blog/2007/11/23/getting-to-the-bottom-of-overimitation/#comment-73 Very interesting study. Regarding your conclusion, perhaps there's an alternate theory to test. You suggested that maybe the children we're able to eliminate the unnecessary actions and thus "overimitated." My take on it would be that the children absorbed the learning in whole packages, the action sequence being the whole. The learning strategy is to grab the whole package, internalize and remember the sequence. Sort it later. Do what leaded to success even if there are recognizable "extras" in there. So it's not just that the kids "couldn't avoid it," it's rather that that's the strategy--grab by wholes, sort later. Just an idea. Thanks for sharing what you've been investigating! Very interesting study. Regarding your conclusion, perhaps there’s an alternate theory to test. You suggested that maybe the children we’re able to eliminate the unnecessary actions and thus “overimitated.” My take on it would be that the children absorbed the learning in whole packages, the action sequence being the whole. The learning strategy is to grab the whole package, internalize and remember the sequence. Sort it later. Do what leaded to success even if there are recognizable “extras” in there. So it’s not just that the kids “couldn’t avoid it,” it’s rather that that’s the strategy–grab by wholes, sort later.
Just an idea.
Thanks for sharing what you’ve been investigating!

]]> http://www.hellofelix.com/blog/2007/11/23/getting-to-the-bottom-of-overimitation/comment-page-1/#comment-55 vijay Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:18:26 +0000 http://www.hellofelix.com/blog/2007/11/23/getting-to-the-bottom-of-overimitation/#comment-55 The question that springs to my mind is, would the children continue to overimitate if left alone with the dinosaurs, ie, the household objects? What's to say that, though they know the adult does "silly" things, they don't want to do silly things too? The question that springs to my mind is, would the children continue to overimitate if left alone with the dinosaurs, ie, the household objects? What’s to say that, though they know the adult does “silly” things, they don’t want to do silly things too?

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