What does overimitative mean?
Overimitative means Excessively imitative..
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Excessively imitative..
A problem of modelling techniques is that once an imitative tendency is developed it can lead a patient to be overimitative (i.e. he may start to imitate responses of the nurse which she does not want copying) […]
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Overimitative means Excessively imitative..
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A problem of modelling techniques is that once an imitative tendency is developed it can lead a patient to be overimitative (i.e. he may start to imitate responses of the nurse which she does not want copying) […]
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