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"Don't Try This at Home": Toddlers' Imitation of New Skills from People on Video
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Strouse, Gabrielle A.; Troseth, Georgene L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
Imitation of people on educational television is a potential way for very young children to learn new skills. Although toddlers in previous studies exhibited a "video deficit" in learning, 24-month-olds in Study 1 successfully reproduced behaviors modeled by a person who was on video as well as they did those modeled by a person who was present in…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Imitation, Toddlers, Information Sources