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Deferred imitation
Deferred imitation refers to a child’s ability to imitate the actions they have observed others perform. Piaget believed deferred imitation to result from the child’s increasing ability to form mental representations of behaviour performed by others.
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Deferred imitation is a term in Piaget's theory that refers to the ability to imitate behavior that was observed at an earlier time.
 
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