Different groups of vervet monkeys learned to prefer either blue or pink corn. All but one of their 27 infant monkeys subsequently came to prefer the same color corn preferred by the adult monkeys in their group. This subsequent outcome best illustrated
A) operant conditioning
B) instinctive drift
C) observational learning
D) extrinisic motivation
Ans: C) observational learning
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