Your neighbor and his little boy were out in their front yard. The little boy has a toy car that he can sit in and ride (by pushing along with his feet). His father was working on his car, and you watched the father slide under his car to work underneath it with some tools. You looked over a few minutes later and giggled because the little boy also slid under his toy car and was using some of his plastic tools to "fix" the car. This demonstrates:

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2 March, 00:19

Your neighbor and his little boy were out in their front yard. The little boy has a toy car that he can sit in and ride (by pushing along with his feet). His father was working on his car, and you watched the father slide under his car to work underneath it with some tools. You looked over a few minutes later and giggled because the little boy also slid under his toy car and was using some of his plastic tools to "fix" the car. This demonstrates:

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Answer: Observational learning

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Observational learning is a way of learning that happens through the observation and modeling of the behavior and attitude of others. It is a kind of social learning that doesn't require any reinforcement to happen but does need a social model. During childhood, a model is a person who enbodies authority or higher status in a group, such as the parents, a sibling or a teacher.