DENNEY, DOUGLAS R. Modeling and Eliciting Effects upon Conceptual Strategies. CmLD DEVELOPMENT, 1972, 43, 810-823. The present study attempts to extend the principles of observational learning to the acquisition and performance of hypothesis-seeking and constraint-seeking conceptual strategies in children. Boys aged 6, 8, and 10 years were shown videotaped models who depicted hypothesis seeking, constraint seeking with constraints based on perceptual attributes, and constraint seeking with constraints based on functional attributes. The results lend support to the notion that children at different ages are differentially responsive to various conceptual-strategy models. In general, while the present study discovered eliciting effects, it failed to show that true observational learning effects can result from observation of a conceptual-strategy model.
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Douglas R. Denney (1972) studied this question.