Bethany wants to play baseball like her older sisters. bethany watches them play for hours and is gradually learning how to play by studying what they do. this could be called __

The behavior that Bethany is demonstrating the modeling effect. It is where a person demonstrates the observational learning in order to obtain or to be able to perform an ability, behavior or attitude that the person wants. It is like how Bethany observes her older sister for she wants to play baseball and learn how to play with it in a way that she observes her.