Childhood Observational Learning

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First, I was shocked, how can anyone do this to a child especially a baby. Further, I was astonished that Genie was able to learn to walk and learn words since technically too late for her to develop the skills to learn how to walk and learn words.
Genie was deprived from contact with the outside world. Her world was confined to her dark room. According to the social learning theory, every individual learns through observation and imitation of other people. In the class text, Berger explains how “learning often occurs through modeling, when people copy what they see others do (also called observational learning) (Berger, 2015). As a result of being in extreme isolation, Genie was unable to learn the basic skills most children learn during

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