Carol was about a year and a half old when her father, who was babysitting her for the day, noticed that she was brushing her hair with a rattle just the way his wife brushed her hair before she left about three hours earlier. Carol's father was sure this was something new she had learned. This is an example of

Answer:This is an example of deferred Information or imitation

Explanation:

Deferred imitation is an action that we perform after a while because we had observed it several times being performed infront of us as a result we stored this in our memory which allows us to later retrieve it and perform the exact act. Children are good at observing what others do and later imitate the axact act especially as they get older they are able to keep infomation longer. This is part of learning new skills because even as adult we learn sometimes observing others for example let us say when you were still living at home your mom use to remove fat in a piece of meat before cooking it, it is very likely that you may also find yourself doing the same thing in the future when you live alone.

Carol had retained a memory of how her mom brushed her hair and three hours later she retrieved the memory and imitated that action.