Tina watches as her brother Jerry puts his hand on the hot burner of a stove. As Jerry recoils in pain and horror, Tina has learned a valuable lesson, but without any direct reinforcement and without any direct experience with hot burners
What kind of learning has taken place in Tina?
a) operant conditioning
b) classical conditioning
c) insight learning
d) observational learning
ANS: D, Tina has no doubt learned to avoid touching hot burners, even though she didn't need to be reinforced for doing so, nor experience the effects of hot burners directly. Merely watching Jerry's behavior caused learning to take place.
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