overimitative

adj

overimitative

adj

Etymology From over- + imitative.

1

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) […]1978, Richard J. Butler, Gerald Rosenthall, Behaviour and Rehabilitation, page 135:

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