Sentence examples for case of imitation from inspiring English sources

All too often it is a case of imitation: somebody else has done it, so we should too.

In an apparently non-political case of imitation of Thich Quang Duc, the young son of an American officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire.

Under such circumstances, again, the modification of the action by the donor is as crucial as it is in the case of imitation because it profoundly affects the likelihood of the recipient acquiring a new behavior, which must be worked out by the recipient itself.

It can, therefore, be argued that the ability to switch between representations of self and other, whether these are mental representations in the case of theory of mind, motor representations in the case of imitation, or representations of visual perspective or emotions, helps to facilitate successful social cognition.

The above model equations result in case of proportional imitation [61], [135].

Poole et al. [ 1 ] documented two cases of vocal imitation in African savannah elephants: a 10-year-old female imitated the sounds of trucks, and a 23-year-old male named Calimero, who had spent a long time as the only African elephant in a zoo among Asian elephants, imitated the high-pitched chirping sounds typically produced by Asian elephants, but not by African elephants.

Many assumed that the ensuing terminological muddle would result in the demise of the voluntary (real) living wage, in a case of death by imitation.

In the case of the control of imitation (e.g., Brass et al. 2001), the 2 representations are motor representations, for example: as a result of task instructions, I intend to lift my index finger, and activate the motor representation for index finger lifting; but the sight of someone else lifting their middle finger activates the motor representation for middle finger lifting.

In most cases, a little bit of imitation is a good thing, says study co-author Pontus Leander, a social psychologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

In this case, by contrast with that of imitation, Plato finds a new use for an idea that has a cultural and specifically a religious meaning before him (Ledbetter 2003, Murray 1981, Tigerstedt 1970).

The settings for accurate extraction of fundamental frequency were calibrated separately for each sound category (in the case of Koshik's speech imitations and the human utterances: 120 Hz; rumbles and growls: 10 Hz; squeals, chirps, and trumpets: 300 Hz).