Question

At school, timothy noticed that his friend albert was teased by his classmates because he wore pink colored pants. they teased him saying, "boys don't wear pink. don't you know that?" after the incident, timothy refused to wear pink clothes. according to the social learning theory, timothy is learning gender roles through ________.

Answer 1

According to the social learning theory, Timothy is learning gender roles through direct reinforcement. This is an arrangement in which the individual’s reinforcement is being obtained by having to complete a certain task in which after he realize of what his friends told him after the incident, it made him want to do things in a different way just so that he won’t be teased again.