Billy sees his father working with power tools. As a consequence, Billy grows up enjoying work with power tools himself, and he perceives this kind of work to be "masculine." The sequence of events is consistent with the ________ theory of identification.

A. gender stereotyping
B. social learning
C. gender-constancy
D. psychoanalytic


Answer: B

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