You're meeting with your book club to talk about Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Someone mentions the scene where Kathy notices that the way older couples touch and talk to each other is a mimicry of what they saw on TV. They copy their "couple behaviour" from the fictional couples from TV dramas. You say, "Oh, that's actually what we all do, according to the __________ theory."

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Social learning theory suggests that we learn by observing and imitating others. In the scene mentioned, the older couples are imitating the behavior they see on TV, which is an example of social learning.

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