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  • Imitative learning is a type of social learning whereby new behaviors are acquired via imitation. Imitation aids in communication, social interaction...
    14 KB (1,971 words) - 11:37, 30 April 2024
  • Sympathetic magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence. James George Frazer coined the term "sympathetic...
    15 KB (2,052 words) - 20:08, 27 May 2024
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    several different forms of counterpoint, including imitative counterpoint and free counterpoint. Imitative counterpoint involves the repetition of a main...
    34 KB (4,046 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2024
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    An electronic countermeasure (ECM) is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar, or other detection systems, like infrared...
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    Sample of polyphony A bar from J.S. Bach's "Fugue No.17 in A flat," BWV 862, from Das Wohltemperierte Clavier (Part I), a famous example of contrapuntal...
    27 KB (3,133 words) - 13:56, 6 May 2024
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    Imitation (redirect from Imitative behavior)
    challenged by scientific research which observed social learning and imitative abilities in animals. Psychologist Kenneth Kaye showed that the ability...
    62 KB (7,608 words) - 20:58, 26 March 2024
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    repetition of movements made by another person; both are "subsets of imitative behavior" whereby sounds or actions are imitated "without explicit awareness"...
    14 KB (1,547 words) - 18:46, 28 April 2024
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    ethics, vocabulary, and geographical perspective, and by the apparently imitative character of certain passages of the Odyssey in relation to the Iliad...
    60 KB (6,594 words) - 19:15, 7 June 2024
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    Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from history, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes...
    15 KB (1,745 words) - 04:48, 24 December 2023
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    them to absorb propaganda indiscriminately. Also, children are highly imitative: studies by Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross in the 1960s...
    90 KB (10,554 words) - 20:55, 30 May 2024
  • Electoral autocracy is a hybrid regime, in which democratic institutions are imitative and adhere to authoritarian methods. In these regimes, regular elections...
    6 KB (474 words) - 02:28, 6 April 2024
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    Osborne's plays, and concludes that though the latter's work is neither imitative nor derivative, these affinities are sufficient to classify Osborne as...
    153 KB (19,242 words) - 08:04, 8 June 2024
  • of motets ever printed. Its revolutionary open style featuring early imitative counterpoint and two-voice parts has added to its acclaim as one of the...
    6 KB (489 words) - 02:28, 17 May 2024
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    to '70s California pop." Van Dyke Parks stated, "Brian Wilson was not imitative, he was inventive; for people who don't write songs, it's hard to understand...
    260 KB (31,375 words) - 17:58, 30 May 2024
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    gargariser, which shares a Latin root with the verb "gargle": 8  and is likely imitative in origin. The Italian word for gargoyle is doccione or gronda sporgente...
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    French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. The earliest documented use was in 1709. In the 18th and 19th...
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    voice and just the right knowing style", and The New Yorker called her "imitative of no one." Merman was indifferent to her reviews, prompting George Gershwin...
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    which are still crucial in literary studies. Plato's attacks on poetry as imitative, secondary, and false were formative as well. The Sanskrit Natya Shastra...
    29 KB (3,411 words) - 11:28, 9 June 2024
  • repetition of sounds and language, it is one of the echophenomena ("automatic imitative actions without explicit awareness"). It has long been recognized as a...
    5 KB (645 words) - 21:50, 3 December 2023
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    Subconscious imitative behaviour...
    18 KB (2,180 words) - 19:17, 19 April 2024
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