"Our position is that if there are

"Our position is that if there are any innate connections between stimuli and responses of the initiative type, they are few and isolated."

"In summary, imitation can greatly hasten the process of independent learning by enabling the subject to perform the first correct response sooner than he otherwise would… . In order for imitation to elicit the first correct response, the essential units of copying or matched-dependent behavior must already have been learned." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)