When a child is able to pretend that he/she is driving a car, feeding a doll, or cooking dinner after he/she has witnessed such scenes, and the person the child witnessed doing the activity is no longer present, this is called?

It is called the deferred imitation. It is a term in which a child could have the ability to be able to imitate or do a mental representations. These representations are being copied for they are able to imitate the performance of others. It could be seen above as the child was able to do performances that the child sees.