An Eight-Year-Old Boy Grows Up in a Home Where His

question 44

Multiple Choice

An eight-year-old boy grows up in a home where his father demonstrates ethnic intolerance. One day, while watching TV, the boy's father yells at a man on the television, "Why don't you go back home where you belong?!" The next day the boy sees a schoolmate of the same ethnic background and repeats what he heard his father say. Which theory predicts this kind of behaviour from the boy?

• A) observational theory
• B) technological theory
• C) critical theory
• D) social learning theory

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