16 Without success and prestige bias, there would be no retention of the cultural repertoire over multiple generations; without imitation errors and (limited) individual inventiveness, variation in cultural traits would quickly disappear.
Much of the early motor development of the child depends on learning and refining such procedures, through play, imitation, trial and error, and incessant rehearsal.
Consumers' and producers' best rational efforts are often confounded and so they fall back on a range of other strategies: imitation, trial and error, prejudice, guesswork.
We think intelligence, ability in other dimensions, intuition, trial and error, imitation are going to lead, in a competitive marketplace," to the best strategies.
A. Young pelicans learn to feed themselves through a combination of trial and error, imitation of adult birds and instinct, bird experts suggest.
To quote Halpern, "Young people learn through observation, imitation, trial and error, and reiteration; in other words through force of experience.
Current research suggests that social media adoption in government has been mainly market driven and that the various adoption strategies have resulted from a combination of trial and error, imitation, and both informal and formal knowledge exchanges.
Likely song traits are culturally transmitted through imitation, and learning errors or innovations (new syllables) across generations can provide an important source of variation [ 21, 53] affected by processes similar to those driving genetic variation, such as drift or selection [ 54].
The most important English Renaissance statement concerning comedy is that of Sir Philip Sidney in The Defence of Poesie (1595): Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which [the comic dramatist] representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
