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Social learning by observation is analogue, instruction is digital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Marion Blute
Marion Blute
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ont. L5L 1C6, [email protected]
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Abstract

Social learning in the strict sense is learning by observation or instruction. Learning by observation appears to be an analogue process while learning by instruction is digital. In evolutionary biology this distinction is currently thought to have implications for the extent to which mechanisms can function successfully as an inheritance system in an evolutionary process.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 327
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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