Stages and Factors Influencing Observational Learning thumbnail|Observing skiing from others The stages of observational learning include exposure to the model, acquiring the model's behaviour and accepting it as one's own. When an animal is given a task to complete, they are almost always more successful after observing another animal doing the same task before them. Experiments have been conducted on several different species with the same effect: animals can learn behaviors from peers. However, there is a need to distinguish the propagation of behavior and the stability of behavior. Research has shown that social learning can spread a behavior, but there are more factors regarding how a behavior carries across generations of an animal culture. Frith, Chris D., and Uta Frith. "Mechanisms Of Social Cognition." Annual Review Of Psychology 2012; 63.: 287-313
Influential stages and factors thumbnail|Observing skiing from others The stages of observational learning include exposure to the model, acquiring the model's behaviour and accepting it as one's own. When an animal is given a task to complete, they are almost always more successful after observing another animal doing the same task before them. Experiments have been conducted on several different species with the same effect: animals can learn behaviors from peers. However, there is a need to distinguish the propagation of behavior and the stability of behavior. Research has shown that social learning can spread a behavior, but there are more factors regarding how a behavior carries across generations of an animal culture. 
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Frith, Chris D., and Uta Frith. "Mechanisms Of Social Cognition." Annual Review Of Psychology 2012; 63.: 287-313