Question

Suppose a person never buys eggs because he doesn't like them. One weekend, he has guests who love eggs, and so he decides to buy some at the store. Even though he has never bought eggs at this store, he knows exactly where they are in the store from all the times he has shopped there before. The fact that he has learned where the eggs are during those past trips is an example of:

Answer 1

Answer:

This is an example of latent learning.

Explanation:

Latent learning is the retention of information without much help or motivation. This is an unconscious process; one tends to "just know" the information.

In this case, the person regularly goes to the store and he has seen where the eggs are, unconsciously retaining this information and thus knows where they are when he goes to buy it for his guests. This is an example of latent learning.