social learning
Learning from others
Social learning is acquiring knowledge, behaviors, or skills by observing and imitating others rather than through direct experience or formal instruction.
The concept spans psychology and education, describing how children learn language and norms by watching adults, or how employees pick up workplace culture from colleagues.
Much of what we know about social behavior comes from social learning rather than explicit teaching.
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- imitationCopy of the original
- peer tutoringStudents teaching other students
- vicariousExperienced through another
- conformityAdherence to norms
monkey see monkey do · copycat behavior · reinforcement · mentorship · mimicry · collective intelligence · community practices · informal education · ethology · tool use · scaffolding · mirroring · self-efficacy · role-playing · identity formation · practice · peer · peer pressure
- animal behavioranimal behavior, instincts, learned behavior, conditioning, territorial behavior
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- group learningstudy group, group study, peer tutoring, study groups, study buddy
- School Socializationpeer influence, student interaction, group dynamics, cliques, peer pressure
- socializationsocialization, enculturation, norms, values, role models
social learningindependent learning
Education pursued without instruction
self-directed learning · autodidacticism · self-teaching · instinct
social learningtrial and error
Learning through repeated attempts
trial-and-error learning · operant conditioning · discovery learning · direct experience · classical conditioning