Axiomempiricalv1
Humans acquire new behavioral patterns through observational
Humans acquire new behavioral patterns through observational learning when they attend to, retain, can reproduce, and are motivated to imitate observed behaviors.
Why This Is an Axiom
This is Bandura's social learning theory—a foundational empirical claim about how observational learning works. It describes the four-condition mechanism and cannot be derived from other axioms. Grounds the concept of social triggers for new behaviors.