'mimic behavior' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of imitating someone else's behavior. For example, "The young child was mimicking the actions of their older siblings."
She also had her son mimic behaviour consistent with autism and, as part of the fraud, resisted attempts by the child's nursery to toilet-train him.
Margot Waddell of the Tavistock Clinic, author of Inside Lives, a book about adolescence, says there are 'cutting schools' and 'anorexia schools', so strong is the tendency to mimic behaviour.
A major limitation of all studies employing simulation is that behaviour in simulated environments may not mimic behaviour in everyday clinical practice.
Children are known to mimic behaviours they're exposed to, even if it's something they've never done before, and potentially with worrying results, as Bandura's famous Bobo Doll study demonstrated.
This revealed that a 'bridged crack' model mimics behaviour best.
We believe our results lay foundation for future developments of robots mimicking behaviour of leeches.
At the start of your career you are not only more impressionable, but you are more likely to mimic the behaviour of older 'more experienced' colleagues.
And the chemical-explosive detonator can also be tested using "simulants" that are not fissile but mimic the behaviour of the plutonium pit in other ways.
Although the Turing test was originally proposed as a test of a computer's ability to effectively mimic human behaviour, it was deemed appropriate for use on teenagers, given how modern teens mostly communicate via machines anyway.
Certain labroid fishes, which eat parasites off the bodies of other fish, induce their hosts to submit to treatment by a dancing approach; certain blennies treacherously mimic this behaviour and then rapidly bite the fin of the unsuspecting victim.
In addition, one species may evolve to mimic the behaviour or appearance of another to garner some of the same protections enjoyed by the model species (see Batesian mimicry).
