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  • Abstract‘Social learning’ is a general term referring to several behavioral processes that allow social interactions to bias what individuals learn. Processes involved in social learning include ‘local enhancement’, when the normal activities of one individual simply focus attention of others on a particular part of the environment with which they then interact, and ‘teaching’, when a model changes its own behavior to facilitate learning by naive individuals.