The text provides a clear definition of true imitation in ABA it is not signaled okay by that verbal SD Its signaled by that nonverbal action of whatever person whatever person were imitating right We just want our client to be able to look around look at somebody else and copy them That is true imitation It emphasizes that were looking for that immediacy and were looking for that nonverbal SD A Toms father chops wood then hands Tom the axe and verbally instructs Now your turn before Tom chops wood This is not true imitation because the behavior is signaled by a verbal discriminative stimulus Now your turn and the physical prompt of handing the axe rather than solely by the nonverbal model of his father chopping wood The text explicitly states True imitation is not signaled okay by that verbal SD B Georgia stops running during a game of red light green light when the designated stop sign is displayed This is a response to an environmental discriminative stimulus the red light sign not an imitation of another persons nonverbal behavior The text indicates Is she imitating her friends or did she just respond to the SD Well she responded to the SD C Braden observes his friend writing an answer on a math test then immediately and covertly writes the same answer on his own test This scenario best exemplifies true imitation Bradens friends writing serves as a nonverbal model and Bradens immediate copying of that action without a verbal instruction from the friend aligns with the criteria for true imitation The text specifically uses this example Braden looks at his friend writes the same answer This is a good example of imitation D Josh asks his friend Do you have any jacks and upon being told Go fish he draws a card from the deck This sequence of behaviors is an intraverbal exchange followed by a response to an instruction not an imitative act based on a nonverbal model The text categorizes this as just an intraverbal exchange Not imitation