A young boy is watching TV.In one show he sees a bully steal a lunch from another child.The bully then enjoys eating the other child's lunch.Because this boy feels that his mother makes him a rather skimpy lunch and he is always hungry at school,he starts stealing other kids' lunches at school.According to Bandura's theory,the boy's hunger at lunchtime relates to the ______ element of the observational learning process.

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According to Bandura's theory, motivation is the element of observational learning process that drives an individual to imitate a behavior. In this scenario, the boy's motivation to steal lunches is due to his feeling of hunger and dissatisfaction with his own lunch, which he observed happening in the TV show. Therefore, the best answer is D - motivation.

A Young Boy Is Watching TV