A five-year-old boy hurts himself while playing with his toys and immediately begins to cry. his father walks over to him and says: "don't be a sissy, boys don't cry." this is an example of:

This is an example of Social learning theory

Social learning theory refers to the process where a person learn something about society throught observation of other people.

This type of learning do not involve personal analytic and rather rely on imitating others and direct orders from someone that we see as role model.