Almost every weekend,you aimlessly wander through the shopping mall without buying anything.One day a mother with a child asks you where the nearest toy store is.You know exactly where to direct her,even though you've never shopped in the toy store.This is an example of ___.
A) Köhler's insight learning
B) Tolman's latent learning
C) Thorndike's effectual mapping
D) Bandura's social-cognitive mapping

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This is an example of Tolman's latent learning because the person has previously navigated the shopping mall without a specific goal in mind, but has still learned and retained the spatial information necessary to direct the mother to the toy store when asked.

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