Modeling (psychology)

Modeling is:

  1. a method used in certain cognitive-behavioral techniques of psychotherapy whereby the client learns by imitation alone, without any specific verbal direction by the therapist, and
  2. a general process in which persons serve as models for others, exhibiting the behavior to be imitated by the others This process is most commonly discussed with respect to children .
For other uses of the term model or modeling, see Model (disambiguation).
Main article: Observational learning

The word modeling refers both to the behavior of the learner and the teacher.

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