is imitation a good start to learn?for or against?please advise.thank you.?

Question

if possible,give your examples please.

Answer 1

imitation comes naturally, so yes it is a good start to learning, take for instance mathematics, you must first master the laws of it before you can start to work with it, and same story goes for drawing - copy the masters but not too much, if you do you will loose your authentic creativity

Answer 2

I believe that imitation is an inhibitor of our creativity.

The first example I can use is playing instruments. When one is learning to play an instrument of any kind, it is very easy for them to learn their favorite musicians songs. In a way, they are imitating the people they admire. I don't think that this is necessarily a good thing though. This person who is simply learning to play another musicians work is merely learning the techniques and styles of another artist. There is no emotion involved, only notes on a paper that are being played accordingly. When you look at great musicians, there music was revolutionary and invoked so many emotions to those who listened. The great musician who wrote this were not imitators of other people, but original artists that used their own emotion to create something beautiful, and not another musicians. This is why when you hear cover bands they could be amazing musicians, but they would never be able to play like the original artist did.

So when people are only imitating another's work, it inhibits them to think creatively for themselves. The first five years I played guitar I spent it learning other musicians songs. I started to realize that I was not developing my own sound because I was always imitating someone else's. Once I stopped doing that and just played from my heart, my music changed and people enjoyed listening to me more so than before

Answer 3

I guess it depends on what you are trying to learn. For learning drawing or painting, imitation of the masters is a recommended method of learning good composition.

Answer 4

A clever person can imitate successfully. For her/him, imitation is a good start if she/he knows which good aspects should be copied.

For instance, to be a good singer, she/he should develop her/his character. She/He may find another singer's voice interesting to the audience. Copying the voice would be good start if she/he has not developed her/his own character.

Answer 5

totally yes !! Like Malcolm in the middle, they care about schooling, being family, but very dysfunctional family !! Imitating real people ! Or imitation, in food ! Not good! causes cancer's !!

Answer 6

Imitation is how all creatures start to assimilate actions or schemata.

'Stages of Cognitive Development. Piaget identified four stages in cognitive development:

Sensorimotor stage (Infancy). In this period (which has 6 stages), intelligence is demonstrated through motor activity without the use of symbols. Knowledge of the world is limited (but developing) because its based on physical interactions / experiences. Children acquire object permanence at about 7 months of age (memory). Physical development (mobility) allows the child to begin developing new intellectual abilities. Some symbollic (language) abilities are developed at the end of this stage.
Pre-operational stage (Toddler and Early Childhood). In this period (which has two substages), intelligence is demonstrated through the use of symbols, language use matures, and memory and imagination are developed, but thinking is done in a nonlogical, nonreversable manner. Egocentric thinking predominates
Concrete operational stage (Elementary and early adolescence). In this stage (characterized by 7 types of conservation: number, length, liquid, mass, weight, area, volume), intelligence is demonstarted through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects. Operational thinking develops (mental actions that are reversible). Egocentric thought diminishes.
Formal operational stage (Adolescence and adulthood). In this stage, intelligence is demonstrated through the logical use of symbols related to abstract concepts. Early in the period there is a return to egocentric thought. Only 35% of high school graduates in industrialized countries obtain formal operations; many people do not think formally during adulthood. '


http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html

'When the parent reads to the child about dogs, the child constructs a schema about dogs. Later, the child sees a dog in the park; through the process of assimilation the child expands his/her understanding of what a dog is. When the dog barks, the child experiences disequilibria because the child's schema did not include barking. Then the child discovers the dog is furry, and it licks the child's hand. Again, the child experiences disequilibria. By adding the newly discovered information to the existing schema the child is actively constructing meaning. At this point the child seeks reinforcement from the parent. The parent affirms and reinforces the new information. Through assimilation of the new information the child returns to a state of equilibrium.

The process of accommodation occurs when the child sees a cat in the park. A new schema must be formed, because the cat has many traits of the dog, but because the cat meows and then climbs a tree the child begins to actively construct new meaning. Again the parent reinforces that this is a cat to resolve the child's disequilibria. A new schema about cats is then formed and the child returns to a state of equilibrium. '



http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Piaget%27s_Stages#Criticisms_of_Piaget.27s_Theory

'Schemata
Piaget defined a schema as the mental representation of an associated set of perceptions, ideas, and/or actions. Piaget considered schemata to be the basic building blocks of thinking (Woolfolk, 1987). A schema can be discrete and specific, or sequential and elaborate. For example, a schema may be as specific as recognizing a dog, or as elaborate as categorizing different types of dogs. As cognitive development proceeds, new schemata are developed, and existing schemata are more efficiently organized to better adapt to the environment. Cognitive development becomes evident through changes in behavior as this adaptation takes place. The process of assimilation involves attempts to organize existing schemata for better understanding events in .the external world, whereas accommodation involves changing pre-existing schemata to adapt to a new situation. '

http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Piaget%27s_Constructivism

In other words, the copied or imitated actions are reorganized for adaption to a new environmental demand.

When or how does this system fail: distorted sensory perception at birth onward retards development, and if unidentified may develop ongoing bad action accomodations and dystonic personality.