Your two-year-old son just said a swear word loudly in the grocery store. Neither you nor his other parent swears and you can't imagine where he earned this new word! Match the explanation for your child's behavior with the theory. The swearing was modeled by an influential teen brother. The young child is imitating the swear words he has heard. Social Learning Theory O Operant Conditioning Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Classical Conditioning

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