The Relationship between Ability Level and Task Difficulty in Producing Imitation in Infants
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Child Development
- Vol. 49 (1) , 209-212
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1128610
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between task difficulty and ability level as a factor in producing imitative behavior in infants. 28 toddlers, ranging in age from 14 to 28 months, participated in the study. A female model performed irrelevant and task-related behaviors for problems of increasing difficulty. The results indicated that the infants imitated the irrelevant behaviors if the task was of moderate difficulty but did not imitate them if the task was too simple or difficult for them to solve.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Action Imitation: The Early Phase of InfancyChild Development, 1976