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#1. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) is working with a group of preschool-aged learners to develop various gross motor skills. During a session, the BCBA explicitly states, Copy me, and then immediately jumps up and down. The learners, observing this, promptly begin to jump up and down themselves. Moments later, the BCBA says, Do this, and then claps their hands. The learners subsequently clap their hands. Based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis, what are the learners primarily engaging in in this specific scenario?

Shaping

Imitation

Modeling

Receptive Instructions

In this scenario the learners are engaging in receptive instructions Receptive instructions or following instructions involve a verbal discriminative stimulus SD such as Copy me or Do this which occasions a nonverbal response from the learner The key here is the verbal cue preceding the model True imitation in a technical ABA sense is defined as a behavior that has formal similarity with a model nonverbal stimulus and is immediately preceded by the model If the BCBA had simply jumped up and down without a verbal instruction and the learners replicated the behavior that would be considered imitation Modeling refers to the behavior of the person providing the example Shaping is a procedure where differential reinforcement is applied to successive approximations of a target behavior until the target behavior is achieved which is not what is described here

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