Julia was working on her laptop one day and her 18-month-old daughter was sitting on her lap. A week later, when she was working on her laptop again, her daughter reached out from her lap and started pressing the keys of the laptop. In this scenario, Julia's daughter is displaying________.

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Deferred imitation is when a child observes someone performing an action and then, after a delay, imitates the action. In this scenario, Julia's daughter saw her mother using the laptop and then imitated the action a week later, which is a classic example of deferred imitation.

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