With respect to understanding how people learn to imitate violence,which of the following is NOT one of the processes involved in Bandura's social cognitive theory?

A) representational
B) instrumental
C) motivational
D) attentional

Bandura's social cognitive theory involves the processes of representation (perceiving and comprehending the model's behavior), attention (focusing on the model's behavior), motivation (the desire or incentive to engage in the behavior), and retention (remembering and storing the behavior in memory). Instrumental conditioning, on the other hand, is a behaviorist concept that involves the learning of behaviors through reinforcement and punishment. While Bandura acknowledges the role of reinforcement in his theory, he also emphasizes the importance of cognitive factors and social context. Therefore, instrumental conditioning is not one of the processes involved in Bandura's social cognitive theory of learning.