Kalliyan has taken the same route home from work for years, but today the road is closed due to an accident. Kalliyan has an important work presentation that she can't miss, so she takes a back road that she knows is there but has never used. She is displaying

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Kalliyan is displaying latent learning, which refers to knowledge that is acquired without any immediate expression of that knowledge until it is required. In this case, Kalliyan knew about the back road without having used it before, and she applied this knowledge when her usual route was unavailable.

Kalliyan Has Taken the Same Route Home from Work for Years