bandura's studies found that learning can take place without actual performance. what is this referred to as?

learning/performance distinction

Explanation:

Albert Bandura is a famous psychologist who worked on social learning theory. Bandura believed that people learn thing in the society by seeing each other through imitation, observation and modelling.

His theory of learning bridged the gap between the cognitive learning theories and the behaviorist as it requires attention and motivation. Thus he stated that human learning takes place without performance. This is referred to as performance distinction or the learning distinction.