You need to look up Bandura, Skinner, Pavlov and other child development theorists, read up on their theories the question will make a lot more sense then.
You will be able to talk about the copy cat theory or learning from example. Stages usually depend on age groups for example a 2year old may pretend to hoover but a 4 year old will pretend to hoover whilst saying things like oh what a mess and use unhappy facial expressions because they have possibly seen and herd their parent saying this. Also the older the more understanding and knowledge as well.
Hope that helps
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