Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0403 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Observational Learning
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The idea
Observational, or vicarious, learning is learning from watching a model's behavior and its consequences, and it is more than copying: it yields new responses and general rules.
In practice
Chimpanzees switched to a better way of using a straw after watching others.
Where people slip
Learners choose whether to imitate, depending partly on what happened to the model.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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