"I didn't know you knew how to do that!" says a bewildered parent to his young daughter. Apparently, the young girl would watch her dad turn on and play games on the computer. This imitation had been going on for several months, but this was the first time she demonstrated her learned behavior. Her father explained the delay by using the notion of:
A. cognitive learning
B. observational learning
C. learning-performance distinction
D. operant conditioning
Answer: C
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