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#1. A Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) is conducting a group activity focused on teaching gross motor skills to young learners. During the session, the BCaBA says, Everyone, copy me and then immediately jumps up and down. All the learners, upon hearing the verbal instruction and observing the BCaBA’s movement, also begin to jump up and down. Moments later, the BCaBA instructs, Now, do this while simultaneously clapping their hands. The learners then proceed to clap their hands. In this specific context, what are the learners primarily demonstrating by following these instructions?

Pure imitation, because they are directly reproducing the observed motor behavior.

Modeling, as the BCaBA is providing a visual model for the learners to replicate.

Receptive instructions, because their behavior is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus.

Shaping, through the gradual reinforcement of successive approximations of the motor skills.

The core distinction here lies in the antecedent stimulus controlling the learners behavior True imitation is defined as a learners behavior that is controlled by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus specifically the observation of another persons motor behavior the model In this scenario the BCaBA provides explicit verbal discriminative stimuli SDs such as Copy me and Do this either before or concurrently with the motor model These verbal instructions serve as the primary antecedents evoking the learners responses Therefore the learners are primarily demonstrating compliance with or following receptive instructions While a model is present the controlling verbal SD differentiates this from pure imitation Modeling refers to the behavior of the person providing the example the BCaBA not the learners response Shaping is incorrect because the scenario does not describe the differential reinforcement of successive approximations of a behavior

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