Psychological theories have traditionally emphasized learning from direct experience. If knowledge and skills could be acquired only by trial and error, human development would be greatly retarded, not to mention exceedingly tedious and hazardous....

The acquisition of some novel behaviour solely by observing the behaviour of another animal, usually a CONSPECIFIC. There are many potential causes. The presence of a conspecific may produce social facilitation—for example, a satiated chick will...

Learning through watching someone else. See Sitting by...

Observational learning (also known as: vicarious learning or social learning or modeling) is learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and, in the case of imitation learning, replicating novel behavior executed by others. It is most...

The serial reaction time (SRT) task was used to compare learning of a complex sequence by action (participants responded to sequential stimuli), by observation (participants watched but did not respond to sequential stimuli), and by action-observation (participants watched an expert model responding to sequential...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the use of observational learning in male and female recreational and varsity athletes (N=642) participating in either individual or team sports. Athletes completed the Functions of Observational Learning Questionnaire (FOLQ; Cumming, Clark, Ste-Marie, McCullagh, &...

The summer is typically a time when news slows down to a snail’s pace. People (including reporters) split for the beach and opt for the latest Pat Conroy novel rather than a daily read of the newspaper. But from the standpoint of Manhattan residential real...

Until now, the race for Mayor hasn't exactly seized the public's imagination, but at least two acute political observers expect high drama by November. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, whose documentary The War Room changed the way Americans view politics, have begun filming Fernando...