Polly sees her mother baking cookies one day. Two weeks later at kindergarten, Polly and her friends are playing house and Polly begins to mimic the steps she saw her mother going through when making the cookies. Polly’s play acting in kindergarten shows that ____
a. ?social learning involves the use of memory
b. ?social learning is slower than operant conditioning
c. ?social learning takes several weeks to settle in
d. ?social learning does not lead to real-life learning
ANSWER:
a
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