Four-Year Old Nykesha Feels Anxious When She Plays with Her

question 34

Multiple Choice

Four-year old Nykesha feels anxious when she plays with her brother's toy trucks but she feels good when she plays with her toy tea set. This suggests that Nykesha has developed internal standards about appropriate gender-related activities, an important concept of:

• A) psychoanalytic theory.
• B) social learning theory.
• C) social cognitive theory.
• D) all of the above

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Dissonance Theory

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