Cooper ch 18 imitation

Question 1

1. What four behavior-environment relations functionally define imitation?
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Answer 1

1. Any physical movement may function as a model for imitation. A model is an antecedent stimulus that evokes the imitative behavior.
2. An imitative behavior must immediately follow the presentation of the model (e.g., within 3-5 seconds.
3. The model and the behavior must have formal similarity.
4. The model must be the controlling variable for an imitative behavior.

Question 2

occurs when the model and the behavior physically resemble each other and are in the same sense mode (i.e., they look alike, sound alike).

Answer 2

Formal similarity has occurred

Question 3

The controlling relation between a model and a similar behavior.

Answer 3

Most important property that defines imitation

Question 4

to teach learners to do what the person providing the model does regardless of the behavior modeled. A learner who learns to do what the model does is likely to imitate models that have not been associated with specific training, and those imitations are likely to occur in many situations and settings, frequently in the absence of planned reinforcement.

Answer 4

Major objective of imitation

Question 5

term used frequently in the imitation literature to label a participant’s umprompted, untrained, nonreinforced responses with formal similarity to the actions of a model. We label such responses to novel models as, simply, imitation.

Answer 5

Generalized imitation