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.What predicts this kind of behaviour from the boy?

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This behavior can be predicted by the social learning theory, which suggests that people learn behavior through observation, imitation, and reinforcement from their environment. In this case, the boy observed his father's behavior and repeated it after seeing the same ethnic background schoolmate.

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