An Introduction to Psychology:
The Science of Mind and Behavior

Table of Contents


Glossary


Observational Learning

Acquired changes in behavior caused by observing and later imitating the behaviors of another. It differs from latent learning in that, with observational learning, one is observing and imitating the behaviors of another, whereas, with latent learning, one is observing and remembering aspects of a situation.

See: associative learning
See: classical conditioning
See: instrumental learning
See: operant conditioning
See: vicarious conditioning


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