Do you believe that newborns are able to imitate the behavior of others? What does the research say on this topic?
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Answers will vary among students, depending on whether they believe newborns are capable of imitation or not. Some research suggests that newborns have a primitive ability to learn through imitation. In a classic study, 2-day-old infants mimicked adult facial expressions including sticking out the tongue, opening and closing the mouth, and sticking out the lower lip. The prevalence and function of neonate imitation is debated. Some studies have failed to replicate this ability and have suggested that tongue protruding simply reflects a general spontaneous newborn behavior, that it reflects arousal that neonate imitation is not developmentally similar to later social imitation. Others have confirmed that newborns from several ethnic groups and cultures display early capacities for imitation. In one study, newborns made corresponding mouth movements to both vowel and consonant vocal models; when the adult model made an a sound, newborns opened their mouths, and when the model made an m sound, newborns clutched their mouths. Studies that require infants to imitate several behaviors in response to different stimuli suggest that neonate imitation is not simply an arousal response.
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