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.According to Bandura's theory of observational learning,his hunger at lunchtime was most related to which factor?

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According to Bandura's theory of observational learning, motivation plays a crucial role in determining whether an individual will imitate a behavior they have observed. In this scenario, the boy's motivation to steal other kids' lunches is driven by his own hunger at lunchtime, which he perceives as being caused by his mother's decision to provide him with a skimpy lunch.

A Young Boy Is Watching TV