Question

2. Janet, a nine-year-old, hears her father swearing at someone over the telephone. The next day, she imitates her father and swears at another child in the school. According to Albert Bandura's social learning theory, this is an example of ________.

habituation

imprinting

modeling

conditioning

Answer 1

Modeling

Explanation:

Albert Bandura was a social psychologist. He proposed a theory observational learning. In this theory, he has been used the procedure of modeling. Observation in which he told about the modeling and how children imitate behavior by observation of model behavior.

He conducted a famous experiment on Bobo dolls. It was a famous experiment that describes the observational leaning. He told how observation learning affects the behavior of children. Thus here Jenet a nine-year-old who hears his father was swearing at someone to observe and perform the same behavior at another child in school.