Observational learning is the process of learning by watching a real-life example. People with different personality types learn and retain knowledge best under different circumstances. For some ...

WASHINGTON — Toddlers may sometimes act like little apes, but researchers who compared the species concluded a child has more sophisticated social-learning skills. In one test, preschoolers who wanted ...

“Monkey see, monkey do” has been a pejorative American idiom for ages, most often deployed by parents when scolding children for emulating a friend’s naughty behavior. Now, courtesy of the internet ...

This strikes me as quite similar to what we’ve seen in research on the quality of teacher-child interactions in early childhood settings, where research suggests that most early childhood classrooms ...

Picture a little boy imitating his father shaving in the mirror or a little girl wobbling proudly in her mother's high heels. From infancy, we learn by watching other people, then use those memories ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of direct training and observational learning on the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of the first-aid skill "seeking adult ...