 we've sat here and thought about what it is we should demonstrate for you for generalized imitation and we haven't come up with it so we figured we just do our own darn thing and maybe you could imitate us no that was bad anyway um so generalized imitation here what we have for generalized imitation is literally imitation that generalizes i know circular arguments so just bear with me so the idea is that if you reinforce a kid person other other non-human animal creature whatever um for imitating then it's possible that that organism will generalize its imitation and imitate other people things organisms one ever that it has not been reinforced for imitating so in the past so for example my daughter Avery she's about yay big i don't know if you can see that on camera but i don't really care anyway she's yay big um so and she imitates her brother all the time that's wonderful genuine imitation which look at our videos for genuine imitation so anyway that's not generalized imitation by itself that's just straight up imitation but she will because she's been reinforced for imitating her brother imitate other people or oftentimes other animals it's funny to watch her imitate dogs but anyway generalized imitation you imitate things that you haven't been reinforced for imitating boom