Jeff always tells his children not to use bad language when something does not go the way they want. unfortunately, jeff uses bad language occasionally and his children have observed him do so. now jeff's children use bad language. this can be explained by

I believe the answer is: social learning theory
social learning theory refers to the characteristics that people adopt by observing,modelling, or imitating the behavior of other members in a social group. In the scenario above, the reason why the child is using the bad language is because he observe and imitate the speaking habit of his father