The children in the research performed by Baer and colleagues gradually improved their

imitation of the actions demonstrated by the experimenter. In fact, they eventually
succeeded in imitating new responses when simply instructed "Do this".

In other words,
they displayed
a. generalized imitation.
b. discriminative imitation.
c. hyper-observational learning.
d. instructional generalization.
e. contingency awareness.


a. generalized imitation.

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