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Reciprocal determinism

Albert Bandura suggested that environment causes behavior, true; but behavior causes environment as well. He labeled this concept reciprocal determinism: The world and a person’s behavior cause each other. Later, he went a step further. He began to look at personality as an interaction among three “things:” the environment, behavior, and the person’s psychological processes. These psychological processes consist of our ability to entertain images in our minds, and language. At the point where he introduces imagery, in particular, he ceases to be a strict behaviorist, and begins to join the ranks of the cognitivists. In fact, he is often considered a “father” of the cognitivist movement! Ref: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/bandura.html Here is one example. I get this from one of the members of Indian Psychologist group in Yahoo. She wrote: HI a new member in family but in profession 4 yrs Intially i went athrough all the things mentioned here, and it was to some extent heart sha