"The seminal work of Andrew Meltzoff & Keith Moore (1977; 1983; 1989) has played a key role in changing the depth and scope of imitation research. In the process of testing Piaget's developmental stages of infant preverbal learning, Meltzoff and Moore (1977) unwittingly...
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...discovered that newborn infants were able to learn via imitation immediately from birth. What they found at first was that 2-3 week old infants could immediately match body parts between themselves and adults, including the ability to imitate facial expressions and various...
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...hand gestures. Remarkably, the infants did not confuse either body part or action. For example, when viewing a protrusion of the tongue by the experimenter, the infant's tongue, and not the lips, would first become activated, while other body parts such as the hands or...
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...limbs would become silent, demonstrating that they could accurately and immediately match the correct body part. The infant would then actively engage in moving that body part until it matched the specific action of the adult. In essence, the infant would isolate...
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...the WHAT, and then proceed with the HOW (Meltzoff & Decety, 2003). In order to confirm that such behaviors were not the result of prior associative experience or reinforcement training, they repeated their study with newborns averaging 32 hours old, the...
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...youngest being only 42 minutes old (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983, 1989). The results were the same, demonstrating that newborns possessed an innate ability to imitate in a way that could not be explained by conditioning or the triggering of innate responses." - Garrels, 2004
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What do you think about this in comparison to Piaget, @jordanbpeterson ?
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