One-year-old Danielle watches her sister talk on a cell phone. The next day, Danielle holds the cell phone to her ear as if she is using it. Danielle is demonstrating what Jean Piaget called:.

The answer is deferred imitation.

Explanation:

Deferred imitation is a type of observational learning in which the person first observes a model's behaviour, and later replicates it. The reason the imitation is deferred (delayed) might include a number of reasons: either the person lacks the cognitive abilities to do it simultaneously (as is the case with young children), or the conditions of the environment so require it.

Deferred imitation.

Explanation:

Piaget would have counted this example as one more of deferred imitation. Such as the example shows, Danielle is imitating something she sees someone else (her sister) perform. This is a deferred imitation given that, the act that she is seeing would be imitated at a later date. So, when Danielle sees her sister talk on a cell phone (most likely holding the phone close to her ear and talking) she holds that image until she is able to imitate it as she is unable to do so at the moment. In this case, at the next date; making this situation an example of deferred imitation.