ABSTRACT
Under conditions in which observers do not overtly perform matching responses during the acquisition period, modeled re sponses can be acquired only in representational form. In the aforementioned theory, observational learning entails two repre sentational systems, the imaginal and the verbal. I t is assumed that during and after exposure to modeling stimuli, observers transform these events into symbolic forms and organize the es sential elements into familiar and more easily remembered schemes. After modeled events have been coded into images or their verbal equivalents for memory representation they function as mediators for later response retrieval and reproduction.
