When Children Observe Their Same-Sex Parent Behaving in Certain Ways

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Multiple Choice

When children observe their same-sex parent behaving in certain ways and imitate that behavior, a psychologist uses which theory to explain the situation?

• A) Freudian psychoanalysis
• B) Piaget's theory of development
• C) gender schema theory
• D) social learning theory

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