You have just completed your first day of training by shadowing a senior employee at your new job. Much of the day's activities were centered on watching the employee run the cash register while you watched and listened as they explained each process to you. After this training, you feel confident that you will be able to run the register by yourself. Which learning perspective includes your belief in your ability to perform something that you have observed, such as your confidence in running the register on your own?
A) Behavioral
B) Cognitive
C) Imitation
D) Social

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D) The concept that describes your belief that you can run the register by yourself is self-efficacy. In the social approach to learning, you have a positive sense of self-efficacy after seeing the senior employee demonstrate the behavior of running the register, and thus, you believe you can perform the same actions.

You Have Just Completed Your First Day of Training by Shadowing