Imitation and Echo Behaviors

Behaviors in which a person copies the actions or speech of another, sometimes beyond what the task needs or without meaning to. It covers repeating heard speech and copying every step of a demonstrated action, including steps that serve no purpose. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes this copying in children, or in conditions where it persists. Learning words and grammar belongs in the language development group. Where the same behavior is typical at one age and a sign of a condition at another, the member page says so.