title: A Developmental Investigation of Verbalization in Observational Learning.
abstract: This study was a developmental investigation of verbalization on the reproduction of televised modeled responses. Boys and girls of three age levels (4-5, 6-7, 8-9) were exposed to a televised model under one of the three conditions: S verbalization, E verbalization/S verbalization, and passive observation control. Older children reproduced more responses than did younger children. Contrary to prediction, the verbalization conditions were not found to promote observational learning relative to the control condition for the younger children. The results were discussed in terms of the rehearsal strategies employed by children of different ages.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Louisiana State University Medical Center , USA.
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Wolf