There were two kinds of imitation tasks: conventional imitation, when the pretend action was modeled using a conventional, appropriate object, such as using a toy phone to talk on the phone, and counter-conventional imitation, when the pretend action was demonstrated usingan atypical object, such as using a banana to talk on the phone. There were six different imitation tasks, and each task included four steps: (1) pre-modeling, (2) modeling, (3) post-modeling, and (4) prompting. Each task could cease at any step if children performed the target pretend action. Prompting occurred only if children did not reproduce the pretend action after it was modeledby the experimenter (E). At the end of each task, E removed the toys and announced, “We are goingto play another game now.”