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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The social learning theory predicts that individuals learn through observing and imitating the behavior of others, particularly authority figures or those in power, such as parents. The boy in this scenario learned and repeated his father's behavior through this process.

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