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Social learning by observation is analogue, instructionis digital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Marion Blute
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ont. L5L 1C6, Canada marion.blute@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

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Social learning in the strict sense is learning by observation orinstruction. Learning by observation appears to be an analogueprocess while learning by instruction is digital. In evolutionarybiology this distinction is currently thought to have implicationsfor the extent to which mechanisms can function successfully as aninheritance system in an evolutionary process.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press