Repeating a Joke to Your Coworkers That You Heard Told

Multiple Choice

Repeating a joke to your coworkers that you heard told by a late night host the previous day violates the operant imitation account of imitation in all of the following ways except:

A) The imitative response is novel
B) The reinforcement for the response appears to be missing
C) The context in which the response occurs is different
D) The observed behavior happened hours before the imitative response