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 of observational learning,his hunger at lunchtime most influenced which factor?

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According to Bandura's theory of observational learning, motivation is the factor most influenced by the individual's need or desire to perform the observed behavior. In this case, the boy's hunger at lunchtime motivated him to steal other kids' lunches, as he felt his own lunch was skimpy and not sufficient to satisfy his hunger.

A Young Boy Is Watching TV